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Cape Point, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

3 February 2017 by Alan

A MyCapeTown selected video about Cape Point:

http://www.youtube.com/v/hIc3bOOG5so?fs=1

The Cape of Good Hope (Afrikaans: die Kaap van Goeie Hoop), Table Mountain National Park, is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
There is a misconception that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, because it was once believed to be the dividing point between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In fact, the southernmost point is Cape Agulhas, about 150 kilometres (90 mi) to the east-southeast. The currents of the two oceans meet at the point where the warm-water Agulhas current meets the cold water Benguela current and turns back on itself—a point that fluctuates between Cape Agulhas and Cape Point.
When following the western side of the African coastline from the equator, however, the Cape of Good Hope marks the point where a ship begins to travel more eastward than southward.

Cape Point, Cap de Bonne-Espérance Afrique du Sud
Le cap de Bonne-Espérance est un promontoire rocheux sur la côte atlantique de l’Afrique du Sud. par 34°21′26″S 18°29′51″E à l’extrémité de la péninsule du Cap située au sud de la ville du Cap et qui ferme à l’ouest la False Bay (traduction anglaise du terme signifiant « fausse baie » ou Valsbaai en afrikaans).
Le cap de Bonne-Espérance n’est pas le point le plus au sud de l’Afrique ni le point de division entre les océans Atlantique et Indien. Le point le plus méridional est le cap des Aiguilles (Agulhas) plus au sud. Cependant, lorsque l’on suit la côte depuis l’équateur, le cap de Bonne-Espérance marque le point psychologiquement important où on commence à voyager plus vers l’est que vers le sud. [source : wikipedia]

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