First sighted by Bartholomew Diaz in 1488, he named it then 'Cape of Storms'. What is it now called?
"This knowledge, together with the map depiction of the African continent, probably encouraged the Portuguese to intensify their effort to round the tip of Africa. In the Early Modern Era, the first European to reach the cape was the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias on 12 March 1488, who named it the ""Cape of Storms"" (""Cabo das Tormentas""). It was later renamed by John II of Portugal as ""Cape of Good Hope"" (""Cabo da Boa Esperança"") because of the great optimism engendered by the opening of a sea route to India and the East. The Khoikhoi people lived in the cape"
"In 1485, the expedition of João Afonso d'Aveiros, with the German astronomer Martin of Behaim as part of the crew, explored the Bight of Benin (Kingdom of Benin), returning information about African king Ogane. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias and his pilot Pêro de Alenquer, after putting down a mutiny, turned a cape where they were caught by a storm, naming it Cape of Storms. They followed the coast for a while realizing that it kept going eastward with even some tendency to the north. Lacking supplies, they turned around with the conviction that the far end of Africa had finally"
"of Cowherds). Dias is also credited with having given the Cape the name ""Cabo das Tormentas"" (the ‘Cape of Storms’), although King John II later changed this to ""Cabo da Boa Esperança"" (the Cape of Good Hope). Dias’ excursion ashore ended hastily when the local people chased him off in a hail of stones. By the time the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama reached the area in 1497, the Bay had been marked on the maps as ""Aguada de São Brás"", (the Watering Place of St Blaize - whose feast is celebrated on 3 February). Da Gama bartered successfully for"
"named ""Cabo das Tormentas"" (Cape of Storms). His King, John II, renamed the point ""Cabo da Boa Esperança"", or Cape of Good Hope, as it led to the riches of the East Indies. Dias' feat of navigation was later immortalised in Luís de Camões' Portuguese epic poem, ""The Lusiads"" (1572). By the early 17th century, Portugal's maritime power was starting to decline, and English and Dutch merchants competed to oust Lisbon from its lucrative monopoly on the spice trade. Representatives of the British East India Company did call sporadically at the Cape in search of provisions as early as 1601,"
"gave the name ""Patagones"" (Big Feet) to the mainland Indians, their land was subsequently known as ""Patagonia"". ""Bahía Cordes"" is named after the Dutch pirate Baltazar de Cordes. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency lists 41 lighthouses in the waterway. Some of them are more than a century old, and some are declared ""Monumento Nacional"". Among the most impressive lighthouses are the ""County of Peebles"" hulk, the world's first four-masted, iron-hulled ""full-rig ship"", used now as a breakwater for the harbour at Punta Arenas, the ""San Isidro"" lighthouse, restored in 2004 and which is now a museum and lodge, and the Evangelistas"
"the westerlies winds - the ocean gyre, but finding just ocean. Having rounded the Cape of Good Hope at a considerable distance to the west and southwest, he turned towards the east, and taking advantage of the winds of Antarctica that blow strongly in the South Atlantic, he sailed northeast. After 30 days without seeing land, he entered what he named Aguada de São Brás (Bay of Saint Blaise)—later renamed Mossel Bay—on 4 February 1488. Dias's expedition reached its furthest point on 12 March 1488 when they anchored at Kwaaihoek, near the mouth of the Boesmans River, where a padrão—the"
"present-day Namibia). This was south of the furthest point reached in 1485 by his predecessor, the Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão (Cape Cross, north of the bay). Dias continued down the western coast of southern Africa. After 8 January 1488, prevented by storms from proceeding along the coast, he sailed out of sight of land and passed the southernmost point of Africa without seeing it. He reached as far up the eastern coast of Africa as, what he called, ""Rio do Infante"", probably the present-day Groot River, in May 1488, but on his return he saw the Cape, which he first"
"deposits have revealed - be traced back more than 164,000 years. The modern history of Mossel Bay began on 3 February 1488, when the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias landed with his men at a point close to the site of the modern-day Dias Museum Complex. Here they found a spring from which to replenish their water supplies. Dias had been appointed to search for a trading route to India by King John II of Portugal, and, without realising it, actually rounded the Cape of Good Hope before landing at Mossel Bay - which he named ""Angra dos Vaqueiros"" (The Bay"
"followed by the official recognition by the Catholic Monarchs of Portuguese sovereignty over most of the disputed West African territories embodied in the Treaty of Alcáçovas, 1479. (See entry on Elmina.) This was the first colonial war among European powers. In 1481 the recently crowned João II decided to build São Jorge da Mina factory. In 1482 the Congo River was explored by Diogo Cão, who in 1486 continued to Cape Cross (modern Namibia). The next crucial breakthrough was in 1488, when Bartolomeu Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa, which he named ""Cape of Storms"" (Cabo das Tormentas), anchoring"
"current and turns back on itself. That oceanic meeting point fluctuates between Cape Agulhas and Cape Point (about east of the Cape of Good Hope). 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. Thus, the first modern rounding of the cape in 1488 by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias was a milestone in the attempts by the Portuguese to establish direct trade relations with the Far East (although Herodotus mentioned a claim that the Phoenicians had done so"
"Bay of Arrows Golfo de Las Flechas or Bay of Arrows refers to a bay on the northeastern side of the island of Hispaniola in the present day Dominican Republic where there was a small skirmish between Christopher Columbus’ crew and the Cigüayos that lived there during Columbus' first voyage. It lies around 69 degrees west and 19 degrees north. The Bay of Arrows underwent a name change after being discovered by Christopher Columbus in January 1493. There is a current debate surrounding its location where some argue it is the present-day Samaná Bay while others claim it is the"
"History of Cape Town The area known today as Cape Town has no written history before it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias in 1488. The German anthropologist Theophilus Hahn recorded that the original name of the area was '||Hui !Gais' – a toponym in the indigenous Khoe language meaning ""where clouds gather."" All knowledge of the previous inhabitants of the region was derived from fossil evidence and from rock art in the area. The first Europeans to discover the Cape were the Portuguese. Bartholomeu Dias arrived in 1488 after journeying south along the west coast of Africa."
"Dias undertook his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, he travelled as far east as Kwaaihoek (a promontory lying just east of the eastern edge of Algoa Bay), where he planted a padrão – a stone cross bearing a tablet charged with the arms of the King of Portugal, King João II. Having been threatened by his men with mutiny if he continued eastwards, Dias turned westwards and called at Algoa Bay, where he watered in the lagoon of the Kabega River (today called the Baakens River, so named thanks to the beacon erected there in 1777"
"been reached. Upon their return to Portugal the promising cape was renamed Cape of Good Hope. Some years later, Christopher Columbus landed in America under rival Castilian command. Pope Alexander VI decreed the ""Inter caetera"" bull, dividing the non-Christian parts of the world between the two rival Catholic powers, Spain and Portugal. Finally, in the years 1497 to 1498, Vasco da Gama, again with Alenquer as pilot, took a direct route to Cape of Good Hope, via St. Helena. He went beyond the farthest point reached by Dias and named the country Natal. Then he sailed northward, making land at"
"crossed the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 on an expedition led by Bartolomeu Dias. Just nine years later in 1497 on the orders of Manuel I of Portugal, four vessels under the command of navigator Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, continuing to the eastern coast of Africa to Malindi to sail across the Indian Ocean to Calicut, on the Malabar Coast. in south India – the capital of the local Zamorin rulers. The wealth of the Indies was now open for the Europeans to explore; the Portuguese Empire was the earliest European seaborne empire to"
"European to visit the area was the Spanish sailor Alonso de Ojeda in 1498, though he never landed. A short time later, Juan de la Cosa, another Spanish explorer, landed on what is today called Cabo de la Vela (Cape of the Sail, so called because of its shape). In 1535, the German explorer Nikolaus Federmann founded a city with the name ""Nuestra Señora Santa Maria de los Remedios del Cabo de la Vela"" (Our Lady Saint Mary of the Remedies of the Cape of the Sail) at the place de la Cosa had landed. The Spanish discovered a vast"
"took part in sailing voyages around the Bay of Biscay and then towards the Canary Islands and West Africa. The first solid references come from 1488, when Juan de la Cosa was in Portugal. At that time, navigator Bartolomeu Dias had just arrived in Lisbon, after having reached the Cape of Good Hope. The Catholic Monarchs may have sent de la Cosa to that city as a spy to obtain information and details of the discovery. He managed to return to Castile before Portuguese officers captured him. Early in the 1490s, Juan de la Cosa was living in El Puerto"
"the size of the existing volcanic dome and the resulting potential for pyroclastic activity. Visitors are generally not permitted entry into the exclusion zone, but a view of the destruction of Plymouth can be seen from the top of Garibaldi Hill in Isles Bay. Relatively quiet since early 2010, the volcano continues to be closely monitored by the Montserrat Volcano Observatory. A new town and port are being developed at Little Bay, which is on the northwest coast of the island. While this construction proceeds, the centre of government and businesses is at Brades. In 1493, Christopher Columbus named the"
"name was applied to the islands of Roatan, Guanaja, Barbareta, Helena, Morat, and Utila, in the bay of Honduras, since their organization as a colony of the British crown, in the year 1850."" They were anciently known as Las Guanajas, from Guanaja, first seen by Christopher Columbus in his 4th and last voyage to the New World, on July 30, 1502. The Admiral named it 'Isle of Pines', and claimed it for Spain. It was from this island that he then encountered the coast of the American continent, on which he landed on the 14th of August following, at the"
"used by Arab and Chinese traders. The Chinese Ming Dynasty had a fleet of 317 ships with 37,000 men under Zheng He in the early fifteenth century, sailing the Indian and Pacific Oceans. In the late fifteenth century, Western European mariners started making longer voyages of exploration in search of trade. Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1487 and Vasco da Gama reached India via the Cape in 1498. Christopher Columbus sailed from Cadiz in 1492, attempting to reach the eastern lands of India and Japan by the novel means of travelling westwards. He made landfall instead"
"Africa in 1910 (now known as the Republic of South Africa). The Portuguese government erected two navigational beacons, Dias Cross and Gama Cross, to commemorate Vasco da Gama and Bartolomeu Dias as explorers who as mentioned were the first explorers to reach the cape. When lined up, the crosses point to Whittle Rock (), a large, permanently submerged shipping hazard in False Bay. Two other beacons in Simon's Town provide the intersection. The Cape of Good Hope is at the southern tip of the Cape Peninsula, about 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi) west and a little south of Cape Point on"
"the city of Harper, Liberia. In 1458 Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal sent his captain Diogo Gomes (1440–1482) on a voyage of discovery and trade that took him and his crew as far south down the coast of West Africa as the mouth of the cape and estuary, which marks the point where the direction of the coastline of West Africa ceases to have any southerly component, but turns definitively to the east, beginning the Gulf of Guinea. Gomes named this geographic feature Cabo das Palmas, i.e. ""Cape of the Palms"", which was later semi-Anglicized to ""Cape Palmas"". The"
"was inhabited by various indigenous groups during its prehistory. Christopher Columbus landed on Santa Cruz, as he called it, on 14 November 1493, and immediately was attacked by the Kalinago, who lived at Salt River on the north shore. This is the first recorded fight between the Spanish and a New World native population, and Columbus gave the battle site the name ""Cabo de la Flecha"" (Cape of the Arrow). The Spanish never colonized the Islands, but most or all of the native population was eventually dispersed or killed. By the end of the 16th century, the islands were said"
"island of Santa Maria in 1427. In 1424, Gil Eanes crosses the Cape Bojador. Diogo Cão and Bartolomeu Dias arrived to the mouth of the Zaire River in 1482. In the same year, the São Jorge da Mina castle is built in the coast of Western Africa, by Diogo de Azambuja, becoming one of the most important Portuguese naval bases. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias becomes the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope. João Vaz Corte-Real arrives to Newfoundland in 1473. Part of the coast of Newfoundland would be charted by the"
"the north-east. The west coast is regularly frequented by a thick fog bank rolling in from the cold ocean, a phenomenon locally known as the ""Malmokkie"". Port Nolloth is located in the southern part of the Namib desert and on average receives about of precipitation per year. The bay upon which the port sits was known by the indigenous Namaqua people as ""Aukwatowa"" (""Where the water took away the old man""). Its location was marked by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias on his epic voyage around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487. It was the last landfall he sighted before"
"used for growing fruit and vegetables. The first recorded sighting by Europeans was by the Spanish expedition of Hernando de Grijalva in 1537, who charted it as ""Los Pescadores"" (Island of the Fishermen in Spanish, not to be confused with Pescadores Islands.). This discovery was referred by a contemporary, the Portuguese António Galvão, governor of Ternate, in his book ""Tratado dos Descobrimentos"" of 1563. In the 19th century it was charted as ""Greenwich"" and ""Pikaram"" by the English, and ""Constantine"" by the French. The island was occupied by the Japanese during World War II, and attacked by U.S. Navy long-range"
"eventually disembarked on the shore called ""Praia do Paraíso"", in present-day Cabo de Santo Agostinho of the state of Pernambuco, or further northwest, in what is today Fortaleza (capital of the Brazilian state of Ceará). According to the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) between the Crown of Castile and Portugal, Castile (later Spain) could make no claim, but the place was named """"Cabo de Santa María de la Consolación"""" by Pinzón. He also sighted the Amazon River and ascended to a point about fifty miles from the sea. He called it the """"Río Santa María de la Mar Dulce"""" (""River of"
"in 1473 and the Congo River by Diogo Cão in 1482. It was during this expedition that the Portuguese first encountered the Kingdom of Kongo, with which it soon developed a rapport. During his 1485–86 expedition, Cão continued to Cape Cross, in present-day Namibia, near the Tropic of Capricorn. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa, proving false the view that had existed since Ptolemy that the Indian Ocean was land-locked. Simultaneously Pêro da Covilhã, traveling secretly overland, had reached Ethiopia, suggesting that a sea route to the Indies would soon"
"far earlier). Dias called the cape ""Cabo das Tormentas"" (""Cape of Storms""; ), which was the original name of the ""Cape of Good Hope"". As one of the great capes of the South Atlantic Ocean, the Cape of Good Hope has long been of special significance to sailors, many of whom refer to it simply as ""the Cape"". It is a waypoint on the Cape Route and the clipper route followed by clipper ships to the Far East and Australia, and still followed by several offshore yacht races. The term ""Cape of Good Hope"" is also used in three other"
"and the point is of that shape out to sea). On 13 November, Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sighted and named ""Cabo de Pinos"" (Point Reyes), but missed the entrance to San Francisco Bay, a lapse that mariners would repeat for the next two centuries and more, due to the fog that characterizes the area. The Spanish explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno named the land ""Punto de los Reyes"" (""Kings' Point"") when his ship, the ""Capitana ""anchored in Drakes Bay on the Day of the Three Kings (Epiphany, or the end of the 12 Days of Christmas) on January 6, 1603. Point"
"remained so until the arrival of the Spanish in the 15th century. On November 19, 1493, during his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus encountered the island now known as Puerto Rico, which the natives called ""Borinquen"" (or ""Borikén"" according to some historians), and which Columbus named ""San Juan Bautista"" (""Saint John the Baptist""). Within hours of setting foot in Puerto Rico, Columbus and his ships headed west to Hispaniola, where he expected to meet several crewmembers who had remained behind from his first voyage. As he left Puerto Rico, he reputedly became the first European to sight"
"Cape Pérez Cape Pérez () is a prominent cape between Collins Bay and Beascochea Bay on Kiev Peninsula, the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, but apparently not named by them until about 1904, when in working up their scientific reports they gave it the name ""Trooz"". In the meantime, Charcot's French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, left for the Antarctic and in November 1904 resighted the same cape, to which they gave the name ""Trois Pérez"", for the brothers Fernando, Leopoldo and Manuel Pérez of Buenos Aires. Maurice Bongrain"
"in Monte Negro, and the second at Cape Cross. The current name of the place is derived from this padrão. What can today be found at Cape Cross are two replicas of that first cross. Cão’s first expedition took place only six years, and the second expedition’s end only two years before Bartholomeu Dias successfully rounded the Cape of Good Hope as the first European explorer in 1488. The original Cape Cross padrão was removed in 1893 by Corvette captain Gottlieb Becker, commander of the SMS ""Falke"" of the German Navy, and taken to Berlin. A simple wooden cross was"