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    Cape of Good Hope
    /ˌkāp əv ˌɡo͝od ˈhōp/
    • 1. a mountainous promontory south of Cape Town, South Africa, near the southern extremity of Africa. Sighted toward the end of the 15th century by Bartolomeu Dias, it was sailed around for the first time by Vasco da Gama in 1497.

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