cape of good hope in English

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a mountainous promontory south of Cape Town, South Africa, near the southern extremity of Africa. Sighted toward the end of the 15th century by Bartolomeu Dias, it was sailed around for the first time by Vasco da Gama in 1497.

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1. That's why they call it the Cape of Good Hope.

2. The Cape of Good Hope is the legendary home of The Flying Dutchman.

3. 1687 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.

4. 1488 – Discovery and passage of the Cape of Good Hope by Bartolomeu Dias in Mossel Bay.

5. From Canada, here, all the way to the south of Africa and the Cape of Good Hope.

6. Elephants once ranged from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea all the way down to the Cape of Good Hope.

7. The severity of this wind made passing around the Cape of Good Hope particularly treacherous for sailors, causing many shipwrecks.

8. The legend of The Flying Dutchman started in 1641 when a Dutch ship sank off the coast of the Cape of Good Hope .

9. The Afrikaner population of South Africa is the descendants of European colonists who started to colonize the Cape of Good Hope in the 1600s

10. The Flying Dutchman is a legendary cursed ship that was doomed to travel around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa for all eternity .

11. Arawacus Aetolus (Sulzer, 1776) TL: "Cape of Good Hope" lincus Fabricius 1793 T lincus Fabricius 1793 T lincus Fabricius 1793 T lincus Fabricius 1793 T

12. Cakraningrat fled to Banjarmasin, took refuge with the English, was robbed and betrayed by the sultan, and captured by the Dutch and exiled to the Cape of Good Hope.

13. Afrikaners (Afrikaans: Afrikaners, pronounced [afrəˈkɑːnərs, afri-]) are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th century

14. And so Benguela Diamonds was founded, named after the cool Benguela Current which flows north from the Cape of Good Hope along the west coast of South Africa to the equator

15. The last ship continued west and sailed across the Indian Ocean, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and as it arrived at our port it became the first ship to Circumnavigate the globe

16. This is a resin from Aloes socatrina, and allied species, of the Natural Order Liliaceae, originally from the island of Socotra, but now from Barbados, the Cape of Good Hope and other places.

17. Some of the original horse breeds in these early imports included the Thoroughbred, Cape of Good Hope Horse (largely descended from the Barb and Spanish horse), Arabian, Timor Pony, and Welsh Mountain pony.

18. De Lacaille studied the stars of the southern hemisphere from 1750 until 1754 from Cape of Good Hope, when he was said to have observed more than 10,000 stars using a 0.5 inches (13 mm) refracting telescope.

19. For example, when Da Gama set sail from Portugal to India’s fabled Malabar Coast in 1497, prevailing winds took him out into the South Atlantic and then carried him back southeastward and around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.

20. Partly coloured map of Eastern Frontier of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, from Algoa Bay to the Great Kei River showing districts, district boundaries in colour, 'Amatembu Kafirs or Tambookies' and 'Amakosa or Kafirs Proper', and rivers, with an insert map showing the Western Frontier

21. Partly coloured map of Eastern Frontier of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, from Algoa Bay to the Great Kei River showing districts, district boundaries in colour, 'Amatembu Kafirs or Tambookies' and 'Amakosa or Kafirs Proper', and rivers, with an insert map showing the Western Frontier

22. A historian and journalist who was one of the earliest and staunchest Afrikaner opponents of apartheid, Hermann Giliomee weaves together life stories and historical interpretation to create a narrative history of the Afrikaners from their beginnings with the colonization of the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Comp

23. After a stop at the fishing village of Hout Bay, one of Cape Town's best kept secrets, continue to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, comprising over 17,300 acres of indigenous flora and fauna, where you may see baboons by the roadside, rheboks, cape mountain zebras, Bonteboks, and the elusive eland.

24. After a stop at the fishing village of Hout Bay, one of Cape Town's best-kept secrets, continue to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, comprising over 17,300 acres of indigenous flora and fauna, where you may see baboons by the roadside, rheboks, cape mountain zebras, Bonteboks and the elusive eland.

25. Johanna Catharina Campher, b1c1: Also Known As: "Kamffer", "van Wijk", "Esterhuijsen" Birthdate: before June 19, 1707: Birthplace: Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa: Death: before circa May 02, 1746 ( Inventory - Campher, Johanna Catharina - 2 May 1746 met er dood ontruijmt door Johanna Catharina Campher) Immediate Family:

26. By 8 April, the Japanese announced to Fricke that they intended to commit four or five submarines and two auxiliary cruisers for operations in the western Indian Ocean between Aden and the Cape of Good Hope, but they refused to disclose their plans for operations against Madagascar and Ceylon, only reiterating their commitment to operations in the area.