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The Cape of Good Hope is a headland close to [[Cape Town]] in [[South Africa]].
The '''Cape of Good Hope''' is a headland close to [[Cape Town]] in [[South Africa]]. It gave its name to the [[Cape Colony]] and Cape Town itself. It is not, however, the southernmost point of the [[continent]] of [[Africa]]: that is [[Cape Agulhas]], 90 miles to its east. The first European explorer to reach the Cape was Bartolomeu Dias, in 1488. He named it ''Cabo des Tormentas'' (Cape of Storms); King John II of [[Portugal]] gave it its more prepossessing current name.
[[Category:Africa]]
[[Category:Africa]]