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Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
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Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese maritime explorer (c. 1450–1500)
Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese mariner and explorer. In 1488, he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa and to demonstrate that the most effective southward route for ships lies in the open ocean, well to the west of the African coast. His…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Mossel Bay
Town in Western Cape, South Africa
Mossel Bay is a harbour town of about 170,000 people on the Garden Route of South Africa. It is an important tourism and farming region of the Western Cape Province. Mossel Bay lies 400 kilometres east of the country's seat of parliament, Cape Town, and 400 km west of Gqeberha,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Cape of Good Hope
Headland of Cape Peninsula, South Africa
The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
February 3
Day of the year
February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 331 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)