Cape of Good Hope

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Cape of Good Hope

(Placename) a cape in SW South Africa south of Cape Town

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Noun	1.	Cape of Good Hope - a point of land in southwestern South Africa (south of Cape Town)
	2.	Cape of Good Hope - a province of western South Africa

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Cape of Good Hope n → Capo di Buona Speranza

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Bartholomeu Dias Bartholomeu Diaz Bouvet Island Cape Cape Colony Cape of Good Hope Province Cape Province capeskin da Gamma Dias Diaz Evening flower False Bay fantasm Flying Dutchman Gama gamma Good Hope honeyflower			Besides, this idea of Jonah's weathering the Cape of Good Hope at so early a day would wrest the honor of the discovery of that great headland from Bartholomew Diaz, its reputed discoverer, and so make modern history a liar. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context The beginning of this voyage was very prosperous: we were neither annoyed with the diseases of the climate nor distressed with bad weather, till we doubled the Cape of Good Hope, which was about the end of May. A Voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, Father View in context One was the British consul at Suez, who, despite the prophecies of the English Government, and the unfavourable predictions of Stephenson, was in the habit of seeing, from his office window, English ships daily passing to and fro on the great canal, by which the old roundabout route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at least a half. Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context			Cape Coral Cape dagga Cape doctor Cape Dutch Cape elk Cape Fear Cape Fear River Cape Flats Cape Flattery cape forget-me-not Cape Froward Cape Girardeau Cape gooseberry Cape Hatteras Cape Horn Cape hunting dog cape hyacinth Cape jasmine cape jessamine Cape kafferboom Cape Kennedy Cape lobster cape marigold Cape May Cape May warbler Cape of Good Hope Cape of Good Hope Province Cape Passero Cape Peninsula Cape periwinkle Cape pigeon Cape primrose Cape Province Cape Sable Cape smoke Cape sparrow Cape Town Cape Trafalgar Cape tulip Cape Verde Cape Verde escudo Cape Verde Islands Cape Verde monetary unit Cape Verdean Cape wine cape yellowwood Cape York Cape York Peninsula Capek Capel Capelan			Cape may court house Cape May Court House, New Jersey Cape May Lewes Ferry Cape May Migratory Bird Refuge Cape May National Wildlife Refuge Cape May peninsula Cape May peninsula Cape May peninsula Cape May Point State Park Cape May Seashore Lines Cape May warbler Cape May, NJ United States Cape Meares Cape Meares National Wildlife Refuge Cape Meares State Scenic Viewpoint Cape Metropolitan Development Council Cape Minstrels' Carnival Cape Miseno Cape Mountain Zebra Cape Mountain Zebra Cape Mountain Zebra Cape Mountains Cape Museum of Fine Arts Cape Nordkinn Cape Nordkinn Cape of Cape of Cape of Cape of Cape of Cape of Good Hope Cape of Good Hope Bank Cape of Good Hope Province Cape of Good Hope Province Cape of Good Hope Province Cape of Good Hope race Cape of Good Hope, Cape of Good Hope, Cape of Good Hope, Cape of Storms Cape of Storms Cape Oil and Gas Supply Initiative Cape Organic Producers Association Cape Ortegal Cape Ortegal Cape Pakarang Boat Yard Cape Passero Cape Peninsula Cape Peninsula Cape Peninsula Motorcycle and Car Club Cape Peninsula Protected Natural Environment Cape Peninsula University of Technology Cape periwinkle Cape periwinkle Cape Perpetua Cape Petrel Cape petrels Cape Philharmonic Orchestra Cape Photographic Durchmusterung Cape Pigeon Cape pigeons

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