Cape of Good Hope

Welcome to the Cape of Good Hope

Known as the Cape of Storms, or Maritime graveyard due to its strong current which left many ships wrecked, there is a common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa. This misconception was based on the misbelief that the Cape was the dividing point between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Contemporary geographic knowledge instead states the southernmost point of Africa is Cape Agulhas about 150 kilometres to the east-southeast The currents of the two oceans meet at the point where the warm-water Agulhas current meets the cold-water Benguela current and turns back on itself. That oceanic meeting point fluctuates between Cape Agulhas and Cape Point (about 1.2 kilometres east of the Cape of Good Hope). Its is African most South Western Point