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8. In 1488, he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa and to demonstrate that the most effective southward route for ships lies in the open ocean, well to the west of the African coast.
1450-1500) became the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa, opening the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia.
The British occupied the Cape in 1795, ending the Dutch East India Company’s role in the region.
In 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, she was requisitioned as a troopship, and the following year carried the first South African troops to the European war front. The mechanics of the intermediate service required that the ships load their cargo first at the three major European ports of Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg. This site has many more.
The Russian vessel Lady R is docked at the Simon's Town naval base near Cape Town, South Africa, on Dec.
Union-Castle House, Southampton. . The Dutch exploration of the Pacific culminated in the 1642–43 voyage of Abel Tasman, who sailed south of the Australian continent and encountered Tasmania and New Zealand.
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In the 100 years from the mid-15th to the mid-16th century, a combination of circumstances stimulated men to seek new routes, and it was new routes rather than new lands.
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Reuben Brigety, the U. In other parts of the world at the same time there were explorers and adventurers who were going to set up important trade routes and centres. Name: Bartolomeu. Reuben Brigety, the U. The Russian vessel Lady R is docked at the Simon's Town naval base near Cape Town, South Africa, on Dec.
In other parts of the world at the same time there were explorers and adventurers who were going to set up important trade routes and centres.
. Since this is the 1840s, any passage would still be in a sailing vessel, following the trade winds down the coast of southern Europe and north Africa across the South Atlantic to the Brazilian coast and then.
1450-1500) became the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa, opening the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia.
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In 1652 Europeans settled where Cape Town is now located, to set up a half way station for ships travelling to the east.
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