The First Fleet stopped at the Cape of Good Hope on 13 October 1787. They were there for around a month and departed on 12 November.
Bartolomeu Dias
The first sailors to discover Cape of Good Hope came from Portugal.
Cape of Storms
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.
the first modern rounding of the cape in 1488 by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Diaz is the first European known to have rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
First Around the Southern tip of Africa, Caoe of Storms/ Cape of Good Hope
His name was Bartolomeu Dias and he did it around 1487.He named it the good hope cape after passing it, as before it was called The monsoons cape because of the heavy storms in that area.
Cape Town was the last stop for the First Fleet.
Bartolomeu Dias founded the Cape of Good Hope which is the tip of Africa. But Vasco da Gama went around the cape of good hope and landed in India
The way around Africa is called the Cape of Good Hope. The Cape of Good Hope is the point where a ship begins to travel more Eastward than Southward.