If you were to sail from Cape Town in South Africa to Perth in Australia, it would take 7 days, 20 hours. The distance is 5,412 miles.
She failed her mission to attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, nonstop. But she vowed to sail again and accomplish her dream or crossing the globe. Now that perseverance!
The nearest "cape" to Cape Town, South Africa is the Cape of Good Hope. While often thought of as the southernmost point in Africa, that honor actually goes to Cape Agulhas, about 150km to the south-southeast.
Cape Horn was named by the first European to sail around it, a Dutch man, and he named it after his home town of Hoorn.
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She failed her mission to attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, nonstop. But she vowed to sail again and accomplish her dream or crossing the globe. Now that perseverance!
Gil Eanes was the first person to sail beyond Cape Bojador.
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Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.
Ships sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to go from the east coast to the west coast.
Wind patterns made passin the cape complicted
Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to sail round the Cape of Good Hope which allowed Vasco Da Gama to be the first to sail to India using this route, arriving in May 1498.