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Ptolemy's world map implied that Africa was part of an outer landmass, separating the Atlantic from the Indian Ocean.The early Portuguese Empire centered around the Cape Route.In 1500, Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral used the prevailing winds on the Atlantic for a volta do mar, and thereby became the first European to arrive in Brazil. European sailors found the stop useful on the way to India.Since the Suez Canal opened, the Cape Route has been used when passage through Suez is refused, or by Capesize ships. 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 Agulhas at the southern edge of Africa. The first recorded completion of the route was made in 1498 by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, the admiral of the first Portuguese Armadas bound eastwards to make the discovery. The route was important during the Age of Sail, but became partly obsolete as the Suez Canal opened in 1869.
The European-Asian sea route, commonly known as the sea route to India or the CapeRoute, is a shipping route from the European coast of the Atlantic Ocean...
sailors, many of whom refer to it simply as "the Cape". It is a waypoint on the CapeRoute and the clipper route followed by clipper ships to the Far East and...
conditions along the route, particularly at Cape Horn, which the clippers had to round on their return to Europe. The clipper route fell into commercial...
America and the United States. The air route between Cape Town and Johannesburg was the world's ninth-busiest air route in 2011 with an estimated 4.5 million...
Cape Town (Cape Town metropolitan area) like most South African metropolitan areas, uses Metropolitan or "M" routes for important intra-city routes,...
decades, Cape Horn was a major milestone on the clipper route, by which sailing ships carried trade around the world. The waters around Cape Horn are...
Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India was the first recorded trip directly from Europe to the Indian subcontinent, via the Cape of Good Hope. Under the...
and largest city is Cape Town, and some other major cities include Stellenbosch, Worcester, Paarl, and George. The Garden Route and the Overberg are...
in and around the Indian Ocean by Portuguese explorers, soon after the CapeRoute was discovered. In a narrow sense, the term is used to refer to the Malay...
commuter route north to Philadelphia and, along with Route 47, as a route from the Delaware Valley to the Jersey Shore resorts in Cape May County. Route 55...
monopolized the trade between Europe and Asia. The CapeRoute from Europe to the Indian Ocean via the Cape of Good Hope was pioneered by the Portuguese explorer...
Brouwer Route was a 17th-century route used by ships sailing from the Cape of Good Hope to the Dutch East Indies, as the eastern leg of the CapeRoute. The...
south than the Cape of Good Hope. Historically, the cape has been known to sailors as a major hazard on the traditional clipper route. It is sometimes...
initial voyage to India by way of Cape of Good Hope (1497–1499) was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the...
route followed the winds of the roaring forties south of the great capes. Due to the significant hazards they presented to shipping, the great capes became...
George, Western Cape Knysna Plettenberg Bay Mossel Bay Oudtshoorn Bloukrans Bridge Bungy Tsitsikamma Riversdale Guided hikes on the Garden Route "10 epic road...
Cape Verde gradually recovered economically by becoming an important commercial center and useful stopover point along major shipping routes. Cape Verde...
opening of a sea route to the Indian subcontinent and East Indies. In 1497, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama recorded a sighting of the Cape of Good Hope...
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