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1. This cape was first sighted in 1488 by Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias, who, according to the legend, called it Cabo Tormentoso, "Cape of Storms".
2. This cape is the southernmost point of Greenland.
3. This cape/point is the world´s most northernly point of land.
4. This cape is the northernmost point of the European mainland.
5. This cape/point/head is the southernmost point of the Asian mainland.
6. This cape is the northernmost point of the Asian mainland.
7. This cape is the easternmost point of the Asian mainland.
8. This cape/pointhead is the southernmost point of India.
9. This cape was called Promontorium Sacrum by the Romans. It was regarded as some ancient geographers as the westermost point of Europe, and of the world. Prince Henry the Navigator established a school of navigation in Sagres nearby in 1420.
10. This cape is situated at the south extremety of South America. It was named after the birth place of a Dutch mariner who rounded it in 1616.
11. This cape in North Carolina has the tallest lighthouse in the USA (63 m).
12. This cape/point is the northernmost point of Alaska (and thus of the USA).
13. This cape near the Strait of Gibraltar was the scene of a decisive battle during the Napoleon Wars (1805).
14. This cape is the eastern extremity of mainland Africa.
15. This cape is the southern extremity of Africa.
16. This cape/point is the westernmost point of the North American mainland.
17. This point/cape is the northernmost extremity of South America.
18. This point/cape is the southernmost point in mainland Europe.
19. This cape is the northernmost point of the Australian mainland.
20. This cape is the southernmost point of the Crimean Peninsula. In the 1990s it was renamed Cape Ayya by the Ukrainian authorities. I refer to the traditional name.
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