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In the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War, the Dogger Bank incident forced the Russian fleet to sail around Africa. The European-Asian sea route , commonly known as the sea route to India or the Cape Route , is a shipping route from the European coast of the Atlantic Ocean to Asia's coast of the Indian Ocean passing by the Cape of Good Hope and Cape ...
The islands of Africa can be subdivided into Indian Ocean Islands and Atlantic Ocean Islands. [5] The largest number of islands of Africa are found in the Indian Ocean, with the sovereign island nations of Comoros, Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar located off the southeastern seaboard of Africa being the most notable.
According to the list, Nigeria is the most dangerous place to visit. The country places last due to extreme violence and terrorism with groups like Boko Haram running rampant in major regions of ...
Bir Tawil (Egyptian Arabic: بير طويل, romanized: Bīr Ṭawīl, lit. 'tall water well', [biːɾ tˤɑˈwiːl]) is a 2,060 km 2 (795.4 sq mi) area of land along the border between Egypt and Sudan, which is uninhabited and claimed by neither country.
Egypt has so far avoided being drawn into the conflict, despite Israeli airstrikes hitting the area near the border with Gaza and forcing it to close on 10 October.
Some 19,000 migrants travelled to the Canary Islands in the first half of 2024. [14] In July 2024 an incident off the coast of Mauretania claimed some 90 lives from among a group heading for the Canary Islands; [13] 2024 saw a record number (9,757) of deaths and missing en route from the African coast to the Canary Islands. [10]
The Cape of Good Hope looking westward, from the coastal cliffs above Cape Point, overlooking Dias beach. The Cape of Good Hope (Afrikaans: Kaap die Goeie Hoop [ˌkɑːp di ˌχujə ˈɦuəp]) [a] is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.
Volcanic and geologic evidence in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Africa indicates the existing oceans may one day spill into the growing rift, severing a small portion of the continent from the greater ...