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Guardafui

American  
[gwahr-duh-fwee] / ˌgwɑr dəˈfwi /

noun

  1. Cape, a cape at the E extremity of Africa.


Guardafui British  
/ ˌɡwɑːdəˈfuːɪ /

noun

  1. a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean

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Who East and South the course         has ta'en   By Guardafui to Zanzibar may go, but he, shall come again.

From The Ivory Trail by Mundy, Talbot

Neglecting the comparatively poor and thinly inhabited regions of South Africa, the Portuguese no sooner discovered than they coveted the flourishing cities held by Arabized peoples between Sofala and Cape Guardafui.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The currents are here so violent that they carried us against our will to Cape Guardafui, where we sent our boats ashore for fresh water, which we began to be in great want of. 

From A Voyage to Abyssinia by Johnson, Samuel

We ran to Cape Guardafui in a gale, a sticky hot gale which made life unendurable.

From A Tramp's Notebook by Roberts, Morley

The extreme points of land upon the several coasts are Cape Bon upon the north, Cape Verd upon the west, Cape of Good Hope upon the south, and Cape Guardafui upon the east.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.

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