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Cape Guardafui
Gees Gardafuul
Capo Guardafui
Aromata promontorium
Cape Guardafui c. 1900
Cape Guardafui c. 1900
Nicknames: 
Ras Asir
راس عسير
Cape Guardafui location
Cape Guardafui location
Coordinates: 11°50′N 51°17′E / 11.833°N 51.283°E / 11.833; 51.283
CountryCape Guardafui Somalia
Regional StateCape Guardafui Puntland
RegionBari
DistrictAlula
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)

Cape Guardafui[1] is a headland in the autonomous Puntland region in Somalia. Coextensive with Puntland's Gardafuul administrative province, it forms the geographical apex of the Horn of Africa. Its shore at 51°27'52"E is the second easternmost point on mainland Africa after Ras Hafun. The offshore oceanic strait Guardafui Channel (or Marinka Gardafuul) is named after it.

  1. ^ (Somali: Gees Gardafuul, or Raas Caseyr, or Ras Asir, Arabic: راس عسير, Italian: Capo Guardafui)

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the Horn of Africa, today a part of Somalia. It lay near the tip of Cape Guardafui, which was itself called the "promontory of spices" (Aromaton akron...

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1876)|quote=Ajan, better Adjan, former name of the eastern coast of Africa between Cape Guardafui and the equator, inhabited of Somali and Galla tribes, who are ruled...

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