The Cape of Good Hope (
Afrikaans: Kaap die Goeie Hoop, , ) is a rocky
headland on the
Atlantic coast of
South Africa. There is a very common misconception that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa but this is not the case. The most southerly point is about 150
kilometres (90
mi) farther to the south-east, at
Cape Agulhas. It can be argued, however, that it is at the Cape of Good Hope that the persistent southerly extension of the African coast relents for the first time anywhere south of the equator and so the rounding of the Cape of Good Hope in 1498 was a major psychological and geographic milestone in the attempts by the Portuguese to establish a sea route to the
Far East.
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