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Encyclopedia > Cape Non

Cape Chaunar is situated on the western coast of Africa, in the south of Morocco. A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. ...


It was called Cape Non, Cape Não, Cape Nam ("Cape No") by Portuguese mariners during the fifteenth century. It was considered the impassable limit for navigators, the non plus ultra beyond which no navigation could occur. (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ...


The thirteenth century Genovese navigators Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi may have sailed as far as Cape Non before being lost at sea. In 1415, one of the exploring vessels sent by Henry the Navigator travelled 180 miles past Cape Non to Cape Bijander. Location within Italy Christopher Columbus monument in Piazza Aquaverde Genoa (Italian Genova, Genoese Zena, French Gênes, German Genua, Spanish Génova, Galician Xénova) is a city and a seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. ... Vandino (sometimes Vadino or Guido) and Ugolino Vivaldi (fl. ... Events Friedrich I Hohenzollern (b. ... This is a current Biography collaboration of the week! Please help improve it to featured article standard. ...


Sources

  • Robert Kerr, General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels
  • Book of Days
  • Bookrags.com Info


 
 

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