SÜDAFRIKA (South Africa) direkt am "Cape of Good Hope", 23458
SOUTH AFRICA, Around the Cape of Good Hope,
The Cape of Good Hope is a very striking cape near the southern tip of Africa, once feared for its cliffs.
It is located in the Table Mountain National Park.
Like Cape Point, the high and steep cliff with a rocky beach in front of it lies at the southern end of the Cape Peninsula, around 44 km south of the city center of Cape Town, the metropolis named after it. It is the most south-westerly point in Africa - not the most southerly, which is Cape Agulhas, around 150 km away - and therefore the cape where the African west coast ends and the south coast begins, where the Atlantic Ocean merges with the Indian Ocean to the east.
The rocky landscape at the Cape of Good Hope also extends under water. The majority of these cliffs are only half a meter to three meters below sea level and can become visible at low tide. The often strong onshore winds at the Cape can push a sailing ship towards the coast, where it can run aground on the shallows. This has already been the undoing of two dozen ships whose wrecks lie on the seabed there[.
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SÜDAFRIKA (South Africa) direkt am "Cape of Good Hope", 23458
SOUTH AFRICA, Around the Cape of Good Hope,
The Cape of Good Hope is a very striking cape near the southern tip of Africa, once feared for its cliffs.
It is located in the Table Mountain National Park.
Like Cape Point, the high and steep cliff with a rocky beach in front of it lies at the southern end of the Cape Peninsula, around 44 km south of the city center of Cape Town, the metropolis named after it. It is the most south-westerly point in Africa - not the most southerly, which is Cape Agulhas, around 150 km away - and therefore the cape where the African west coast ends and the south coast begins, where the Atlantic Ocean merges with the Indian Ocean to the east.
The rocky landscape at the Cape of Good Hope also extends under water. The majority of these cliffs are only half a meter to three meters below sea level and can become visible at low tide. The often strong onshore winds at the Cape can push a sailing ship towards the coast, where it can run aground on the shallows. This has already been the undoing of two dozen ships whose wrecks lie on the seabed there[.
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