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Map of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of Africa. The Cape of Good Hope is at the southern tip of the Cape Peninsula, about 2.3 kilometers (1.4mi) west and a little south of Cape Point on the south-east corner. Cape Town is about 50 kilometers to the north of the Cape, in Table Bay at the north end of the peninsula.
The European-Asian sea route, commonly known as the sea route to India or the Cape Route, is a shipping route from the European coast of the Atlantic Ocean to Asia's coast of the Indian Ocean passing by the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Agulhas at the southern edge of Africa. The first recorded completion of the route was made in 1498 by ...
Great capes. The clipper route from the United Kingdom to Australia and New Zealand, by way of the great capes. In sailing, the great capes are three major capes of the continents in the Southern Ocean: Africa 's Cape of Good Hope, Australia 's Cape Leeuwin, and South America 's Cape Horn. [1]
Vasco da Gama. D. Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira ( / ˌvæsku də ˈɡɑːmə, ˈɡæmə /; [1] [2] Portuguese: [ˈvaʃku dɐ ˈgɐmɐ]; c. 1460s – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the first European to reach India by sea. [3] His initial voyage to India by way of Cape of Good Hope [4] (1497–1499 ...
Many grain, wool and gold clippers sailed the route, returning home with valuable cargos in a relatively short time. Because the route ran for much of its length through the Southern Ocean, south of the three great capes (the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn), it exposed ships to the hazards of fierce winds, huge waves, and ...
Map of the Cape of Good Hope in 1885 (blue). The areas of Griqualand West and Griqualand East were annexed to the Cape Colony around 1880. The Cape Colony ( Dutch: Kaapkolonie ), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope. It existed from 1795 to 1802, and again from ...
The Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars were a series of conflicts that took place in the latter half of the 17th century in what was known then as the Cape of Good Hope (today it refers to a smaller geographic spot), in the area of present-day Cape Town, South Africa, between Dutch colonisers who came from the Netherlands and the local African people, the indigenous Khoikhoi.
The Province of the Cape of Good Hope [2] ( Afrikaans: Provinsie Kaap die Goeie Hoop ), commonly referred to as the Cape Province ( Afrikaans: Kaapprovinsie) and colloquially as The Cape ( Afrikaans: Die Kaap ), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa. It encompassed the old Cape Colony, as well ...