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Term: Good Hope, Cape of

Rounded for the first time in 1488 by Bartholomew Dias who called it Cabo Tormentoso meaning "Cape of Storms"; circled by Vasco da Gama in 1497 en route to India.

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Wittebergen, Cape Colony, 1855 - 1920, Cape Town, South Africa
at sea off the Cape of Good Hope, 1848 - 1914, London