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Cape Agulhas is located in the Overberg region, 170 kilometres (105 mi) southeast of Cape Town.The cape was named by Portuguese navigators, who called it Cabo das Agulhas—Portuguese for "Cape of Needles"—after noticing that around the year 1500 the direction of magnetic north (and therefore the compass needle) coincided with true north in the region. [2]
The ships collided in dense fog off Stilbaai, near Cape Agulhas. The oil vapours in the Texanita's two empty tanks ignited, creating a massive explosion that tore the ship apart, causing it to sink in four minutes with the loss of 47 of its 50 crew; [2] the explosion was heard 63 miles (101 km) away, inland from the coast.
Bredasdorp is a town in the Southern Overberg region of the Western Cape, South Africa, and the main economic and service hub of that region.It lies on the northern edge of the Agulhas Plain, about 160 kilometres (100 mi) south-east of Cape Town and 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of Africa.
Consequently, instead of being 100 miles (160 km) west of the Cape of Good Hope as presumed, the ship was closing on the reef at Waenhuiskrans near Cape Agulhas. The anchors were unable to hold the heavy ship in the storm, so on 30 May near 4 pm, Lieutenant Brice advised Captain Simpson to ground the ship to save the lives of those aboard. [6]
The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Port Phillip, Victoria with the loss of seventeen of the 26 people on board and that of a rescuer. [93] Sir Edward Hamilton United Kingdom: The ship was in company with Canton on a voyage from Hull to St Petersburg when they ran aground on Anholt. They were assisted off and were to proceed on their ...
The lake gets its name from the Zoetendaal, a Dutch East India Company ship, that was wrecked on the coast near Cape Agulhas on 23 August 1673. It is the oldest shipwreck of the South African coast. The survivors started walking towards the Cape and reached a large unknown fresh water lake about three hours later.
A cargo ship that was torpedoed by U-183 about 200 nmi (370 km; 230 mi) east of Sable Island, Canada. Empire Dawn: 11 September 1942: A cargo ship that was sunk by German auxiliary cruiser Michel west of Cape Town, South Africa.
The Agulhas National Park is a South African national park located in the Agulhas Plain in the southern Overberg region of the Western Cape, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) south-east of Cape Town. The park stretches along the coastal plain between the towns of Gansbaai and Struisbaai , and includes the southern tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas .