Agulhas


cape, the southernmost point of africa.
historical examples

one of these lonely towers stands more than eight hundred feet above the sea-level, and warns ships off the terrible agulhas bank.
lippincott’s magazine, vol. xvii, no. 99, march, 1876 various

here it strikes the agulhas current at right angles, and hence possibly the deflection of a part of that current.
memoirs of service afloat, during the war between the states raphael semmes

or thirty miles, if we exclude the five days wasted in a vain effort to stem the agulhas current (see p. 15).
a journal of the first voyage of vasco da gama 1497-1499 unknown

noun
cape agulhas, a headland in south africa, the southernmost point of the african continent

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