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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.
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.

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Against the dramatic fight being waged for preservation of 30 miles of Cape Cod shoreline, the tiny tract at Stone Harbor may seem unimportant.
The ruins of the town may still be seen on Cape Balastra ; they cover seven small hills, and extend from an eastern to a western harbor ; on the southwestern hills are the remains of the medieval settlement of Polystylon.
The former Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Solomon Passy proposed, Cape Verde may enter the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the NATO.
Cape Breton may refer to:
Records suggest that this species may have bred on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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.
Two genera of " geese " are only tentatively placed in the Anserinae ; they may belong to the shelducks or form a subfamily on their own: Cereopsis, the Cape Barren Goose, and Cnemiornis, the prehistoric New Zealand Goose.
The Isles of the Blessed written of by Marinos of Tyre and referenced by Ptolemy in his Geographia may have been the Cape Verde islands.
When a source of that period speaks of stopping or trading at East Cape, either of these locations may be meant, or occasionally the Yupik village Naukan on the southeast shore of the cape, which had less trade because it lacked a good anchorage.
At that point, again, routes may vary: one way is through the Suez Canal and into the Mediterranean ; the other is around Cape of Good Hope and then up the west coast of Africa.
The main island was called Cerna and, according to Henry T. Riley, these islands may correspond to Cape Verde.
The Cape May Peninsula and surrounding area does not have a proper evacuation route and Route 55 may be extended in order to provide one.
Students who live in Yarmouth may also attend Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Harwich or Sturgis Charter Public School in Hyannis ; both for grades 9-12.
Marion students may also choose to attend Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School, a technical high school located in Bourne on the Cape side of the canal.
Image: cape may pink victorian. jpg | Cape May is famous for its many ornate Victorian homes
From there the cape may be accessed on foot ( 1. 8 km ), by horse and carriage or on the Cape Arkona road train ( Kap-Arkona-Bahn ).
In addition, some Cape Coloureds may " code switch ", resulting in a variation of Afrikaans and English, called Kaapse Afrikaans.
Additionally, the town's high school students may attend Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in neighboring Harwich free of charge.
Additionally, high school students may attend Cape Cod Regional Technical School in Harwich free of charge.
Due to their small size, black-footed cats hunt mainly small prey species like rodents and small birds, but may also take the White-quilled Bustard and the Cape Hare, the latter heavier than itself.
One study of the nuclear gene pool of the European hare and the Cape hare suggests they may well be the same species.
Less closely related is the Robertson Dwarf Chameleon, another aridland species which is found in Western Cape province inland from the range of the Cape Dwarf Chameleon and may be a cryptic species complex, and an undescribed population from the Swartberg mountains.

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