Some of the larger basins are the Blake, Guiana, North American, Cape Verde, and Canaries basins in the North Atlantic.

* In 1994, Guy Delage was the first man to allegedly swim across the Atlantic Ocean ( with the help of a kick board, from Cape Verde to Barbados ).

Cape Verde signed a friendship accord with Angola in December 1975, shortly after Angola gained its independence.

Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau served as stop-over points for Cuban troops on their way to Angola to fight UNITA rebels and South African troops.

* Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Niger, Togo, Central African Republic, São Tomé and Príncipe, South Sudan, Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Angola, Comoros, Mauritius, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana

From the most northerly point, Ras ben Sakka in Tunisia, in 37 ° 21 ′ N, to the most southerly point, Cape Agulhas in South Africa, 34 ° 51 ′ 15 ″ S, is a distance approximately of ; from Cape Verde, 17 ° 33 ′ 22 ″ W, the westernmost point, to Ras Hafun in Somalia, 51 ° 27 ′ 52 ″ E, the most easterly projection, is a distance ( also approximately ) of.

*-Santa Cruz, Cape Verde, since 1993

The location of Cape Verde.

Map of the Cape Verde Islands.

Mount Fogo, the highest point in Cape Verde.

Cape Verde satellite image.

Ribeira Torre on Santo Antão Island, Cape Verde.

Cape Verde is a group of arid Atlantic islands which are home to a number of birds and reptiles and constitute a unique ecoregion in the World Wildlife Fund classification.

The Cape Verde Islands are located in the mid-Atlantic Ocean some off the west coast of Africa.

Cape Verde shares maritime boundaries with Mauritania and Senegal.

Cape Verde has signed treaties with Senegal and Mauritania delimiting the specific boundaries.

The ocean near Cape Verde is an area of tropical cyclone formation ; since these storms have the whole Atlantic over which to develop as they move westward, they are among the most intense hurricanes, and are called Cape Verde-type hurricanes.

The Cape Verde islands are a very degradated area.

Due to its proximity to the Sahara, most of the Cape Verde islands are dry, but on islands with high mountains and farther away from the coast, by orography, the humidity is much higher, giving a rainforest habitat, very degraded by the strong human presence.

The current north of the Canaries, has a cooling effect on the islands of Cape Verde, making the air temperature more bearable than it would expect in any case at this latitude.

Hurricanes often begin their training in the waters around the islands of Cape Verde, but it is rare that the strength of the storm reaches close to the islands.

A Cape Verde type Hurricane is formed in the area south of the islands, near Sao Miguel, after a tropical wave on the African continent during the rainy season.

Cape Verde is the driest archipelago of the ecoregion of Macaronesia.

* And Then There's Bea in Cape Town, South Africa ( August 26 – September 7, 2003 )

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

Since the independence in 1975 the official statistics in Cape Verde have no longer made statistics based on racial groups.

0 km-There are no railways in Cape Verde, although there was a short overhead conveyor system for salt from the open salt lake on Sal to the port at Pedro de Lume and a short stretch of rail track to the pier at Santa Maria used for a similar purpose.

Statistics Canada in 2001 reported a " religion " total of 145, 525 for Cape Breton, including 5, 245 with " no religious affiliation.

The St. Peters Canal is no longer used by commercial shipping on Cape Breton Island but is an important waterway for recreational vessels.

no: Cape Breton

There is no rail service in town but the Cape Cod Rail Trail rotary is located in North Harwich near Main Street.

* German leadership rejected Hartenstein's cease fire proposal, partly because Admiral Raeder did not think it wise to enter into a " deal " with the Allies, nothing was to interfere with Eisbär's surprise attack on Cape Town to strike at the supplies destined for the British and Soviets, and Hitler had directed that no word of Laconias sinking or the proposed Axis rescue be transmitted to the Allies, though subordinates ignored Hitler's orders and communicated messages to the Allies about the proposed rescue attempt.

Work on the canal, which began in 1881, was completed in 1914, making it no longer necessary for ships to sail the lengthy Cape Horn route around the southernmost tip of South America ( via the Drake Passage ) or to navigate the dangerous waters of the Strait of Magellan.

There is no direct service to Ascension Island and the United Kingdom, without flying from Cape Town to London or travelling on the RMS St Helena from Cape Town to St Helena.

There are no private schools in Wellfleet ; high school students may, however, choose to attend Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Harwich free of charge.

The Cape Vert peninsula was settled, no later than the 15th century, by the Lebou people, an aquacultural ethnic group related to the neighboring Wolof and Sereer.

First it entrenched the liberal Cape Qualified Franchise system of the Cape Colony which operated free of any racial considerations ( although due to socio-economic restrictions no real political expression of non-whites was possible.

Marschall was enraged that Raeder sent him out on the North Cape raid without air cover or a screening force of U-boats, without informing him of what were the orders given to U-boats operating in the area, and with no plans for resupply.

no: Cape Canaveral

Cape Town's water requirements have since far outpaced the capacity of the dams and they are no longer an important part of the water supply.

no: Cape May County

When it became apparent that, due to a shortage of provisions, they would have to settle on or near Cape Cod, the leaders of the colony decided to draw up the Mayflower Compact to ensure a degree of law and order in this place where they had no legal rights to settle.

This anti-British feeling was by no means universal: in the Western Cape, few Boer felt compelled to move.

no: Cape Coral

The Cape St. Claire covenant reads, in part: " At no time shall any lot or any part thereof be sold, leased, transferred to or permitted to be occupied by any Negro, Chinaman, Japanese, or person of Negro, Chinese or Japanese descent.

There is no rail or air service in town ; the nearest regional air service is at the Chatham Regional Airport, though better and more regularly scheduled air service between the Cape and Boston can be found in Provincetown and Hyannis through Cape Air, and the nearest national and international air service can be found at Logan International Airport in Boston.