Cape Agulhas
Cape Agulhas [Port.,=needles], Western Cape province, South Africa; the southernmost point of Africa. Its name refers to the saw-edged reefs and sunken rocks that run out to sea and make navigation hazardous. A powerful lighthouse on the cape alerts ships. The meridian of Cape Agulhas, long. 20° E, is used to divide the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
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Capes of Storms. (Business Briefs).(South Africa tourist spots)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: African Business; 5/1/2002; 120 words
; The normally peace-loving folk of Cape Point and Cape Agulhas in South Africa are at daggers drawn over where the...that immediately took exception, pointing out that Cape Agulhas is the southernmost point on the African continent...
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Fishing back when.(NF classics)
Magazine article from: National Fisherman; 11/1/2006; ; 691 words
; Ernest Thornhill of West Dover, Nova Scotia, receives Canada's second highest civilian honor, the George Medal. When the Cape Agulhas sank off Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, last January, Thornhill reportedly jumped from the ship with a lifeline, swam ashore...
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Medical charity to star in new TV documentary.
Newspaper article from: Northampton Chronicle and Echo (Northampton, England); 11/3/2007; 318 words
; ...Wars actor and fellow thespian Charley Boorman as they motorcycle from John O'Groats to the southern-most point in Africa, Cape Agulhas. The Daventry charity has already collected more than [pounds sterling]20,000 after auctioning the chance to ride alongside...
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South Africa.
Magazine article from: Country Reports; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...10 April 2002 Introduction South Africa runs almost 2,000 kilometres from the Limpopo River in the north to the southern Cape Agulhas and 1,500 kilometres eastwards from Port Nolloth to Durban. The country borders Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and...
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Reproductive biology of carpenter seabream (Argyrozona argyrozona) (Pisces: Sparidae) in a marine protected area.
Magazine article from: Fishery Bulletin; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...reproductive biology of carpenter was based on specimens collected towards the western extreme of the distribution range (west of Cape Agulhas), where most of the fish examined were reproductively inactive (Nepgen, 1977). As a result spawning seasonality was not accurately...
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Naidoo message spans Africa.(South African Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Minister Jay Naidoo)
Magazine article from: African Business; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...second free election, Minister Naidoo travelled from Africa's northernmost tip, Bizerte, Tunisia, to its southernmost tip, Cape Agulhas, South Africa. His rally team included the Secretary-general of the Pan-African Telecommunications Union (PATU), Gideon Makwatbe...
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Life history of South African snoek, Thyrsites atun (Pisces: Gempylidae): a pelagic predator of the Benguela ecosystem.
Magazine article from: Fishery Bulletin; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...recorded from northern Angola to Algoa Bay on the South African east coast but are mostly found between the Cunene River and Cape Agulhas, i.e. in the Benguela ecosystem. Thyrsites atun has been an important commercial species in this system since the early 1800s...
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Cape Agulhas
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
Cape Agulhas, Western Cape/South Africa The southernmost point of Africa with the name ‘Cape Needles’ from the Portuguese agulha ‘needle’, probably a reference to the rocks and reefs here.
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Africa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...straddles the equator and stretches c.5,000 mi (8,050 km) from Cape Blanc (Tunisia) in the north to Cape Agulhas (South Africa) in the south. It is connected with Asia by...Príncipe, Annobón, and Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea; the Cape Verde, Canary, and Madeira islands in the N Atlantic Ocean...
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South Africa
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...are boundaries with Mozambique, Swaziland, and Lesotho. From Cape Agulhas in the extreme south to the Limpopo River in the extreme north-ea...by the British and were united with the British colonies of Cape and Natal in 1910 to form the Union of South Africa, a self-governi...
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Bartolomeu Dias de Novais
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Portuguese explorer who discovered the Cape of Good Hope and opened the sea route...16 Dias gave the name St. Brandon to a cape which soon became known as Agulhas. Dias discovered and named the Cape of Good Hope because, a contemporary...kept the squadron company as far as the Cape Verde ...
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Gulf Stream
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...The velocity of the Gulf Stream is strongest just south of Cape Hatteras and can reach 2.5 m s −1 . At this point the...but only of approximately 50 km in amplitude. Just north of Cape Hatteras the current leaves the shelf and moves over the deeper...diffuse. The slowing down of the current as it moves ...
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