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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.
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.

Cape and is
The move for establishment of a national seashore park on 30,000 acres of Cape Cod, from Provincetown to Chatham, is strengthened by President Kennedy's interest in that area.
But preservation of the natural beauty of the Cape is of more than regional concern, for the automobile age has made it the recreation spot of people from all over the country.
The Inter-american Press Association, which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in eleven years.
It is sometimes colloquially called " antbear ", " anteater ", or the " Cape anteater " after the Cape of Good Hope.
The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.
Agapanthus umbellatus ) is a native of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
The genus is native to Africa, and is common in the Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, the islands of Africa including Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula.
The better known of the two, Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest region near the Cape.
The clipper route, which is the fastest sailing route around the world, follows the ACC around three continental capes-Cape Agulhas ( Africa ), South East Cape ( Australia ) and Cape Horn ( South America ).
Hence, historically, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as " Cape Dutch " ( a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers ) or ' kitchen Dutch ' ( a crude or derogatory term Afrikaans was called in its earlier days ).
It is the majority language of the western half of South Africa — the provinces of the Northern Cape and Western Capeand the primary language of the coloured and white communities.
The northern territory remained under direct administration as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and is today's Botswana, while the southern territory became part of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa ; the majority of Setswana-speaking people today live in South Africa.
Boer (,, or ; ) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ( which are together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal.

Cape and group
Recently I traveled the parkway from East Orange to Cape May and I found the most courteous group of men you will find anywhere.
Kerguelen Islands ( France ; also an EU Overseas territory ) are situated in the Antarctic Convergence area, while the Falkland Islands, Isla de los Estados, Hornos Island with Cape Horn, Diego Ramírez Islands, Campbell Island, Macquarie Island, Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands, Crozet Islands, Prince Edward Islands, and Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha group remain north of the Convergence and thus outside the Antarctic region.
Ethnically, Cape Verdeans see themselves as a single group, regardless of being mulatto, black or white.
The Men of the Deeps are a male choral group of current and former miners from the industrial Cape Breton area.
At about the same time, however, a group of slaves revolted and captured a ship on which they were traveling, and ended up wrecking it at Cape Gracias a Dios.
The southernmost group was the Xhosa people, whose language incorporates certain linguistic traits from the earlier Khoi-San people, reaching the Great Fish River in today's Eastern Cape Province.
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs ( PAGAD ) was formed in 1996 as an Islamically-oriented, militant group in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa.
The archipelago consists of a main island Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego divided between Chile and Argentina with an area of, and a group of smaller islands including Cape Horn.
* December 31 – In response to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, a group of Huguenots set sail from France and settle in the recently established Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope where, using their native skills, they establish the first South African vineyards.
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.
The Pribilof Islands ( formerly the Northern Fur Seal Islands ) are a group of four volcanic islands off the coast of mainland Alaska, in the Bering Sea, about north of Unalaska and 200 miles southwest of Cape Newenham.
* 1461 — Diogo Afonso discovered the western islands of the Cape Verde group.
A line running from Cape Negrais ( 16 ° 03 ' N ) in Burma through the larger islands of the Andaman group, in such a way that all the narrow waters between the islands lie to the Eastward of the line and are excluded from the Bay of Bengal, as far as a point in Little Andaman Island in latitude 10 ° 48 ' N, longitude 92 ° 24 ' E and thence along the Southwest limit of the Burma Sea
* Cape Malays, an ethnic group or community in South Africa
The Eastern limit of the Bay of Bengal line running from Cape Negrais ( 16 ° 03 ' N ) in Burma through the larger islands of the Andaman Islands | Andaman group, in such a way that all the narrow waters between the islands lie to the Eastward of the line and are excluded from the Bay of Bengal, as far as a point in Little Andaman Island.
The municipality, unchanged at the Kallikratis reform, includes islets other than Ithaca including two near Cape Melissa, Arkoudi and Atokos to the northeast and the numerous islets in the Echinades Island group ( the larger ones being Drakonera, Makri, Oxeia, Petalas, and Vromonas ) to the east near the mainland of Aetolia-Acarnania.
On 31 December 1687 the first organised group of Huguenots set sail from the Netherlands to the Dutch East India Company post at the Cape of Good Hope.
Lorimier's willingness to place German Reformed settlers west of Cape Girardeau is somewhat perplexing given his earlier role in placing a group of Shawnee settlers in that same location.
Despite Lorimier's historically protective role of the Shawnee group, the Shawnee appear to have been viewed with distrust by many of the inhabitants of Cape Girardeau.
On December 11, a group of 18 settlers, including Standish, made an extended exploration of the shore of Cape Cod by boat.
In his seven years with Cape, Hart-Davis recruited a successful group of authors ranging from the poets William Plomer, Cecil Day Lewis, Edmund Blunden and Robert Frost, to the humorist Beachcomber.
He was serving as Pillsbury's assistant engineering and electrical officer when Guadalcanals task group located a German submarine off Cape Blanco, French West Africa, on June 4, 1944 and forced it to the surface.
* Three Sisters ( Northern Cape ), rock formation consisting of a group of three conical peaks situated on the watershed between Beaufort West and Richmond

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