Gil Eanes passes Cape Bojador

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A Portuguese caravel under Gil Eanes sailed south beyond Cape Bojador on the Saharan coast and returned, breaking a psychological rather than a physical barrier: the cape had a reputation among mariners as a point of no return, partly because the prevailing wind and current there make a coastal return northwards very difficult. The solution was the one that shaped the whole century — do not fight back up the coast, stand out to sea to find a favourable wind. Systematic voyaging down the African coast follows from this passage.

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