Agulhas

[uh-guhl-uh s; Portuguese ah-goo-lyuh sh]

noun

Cape, the southernmost point of Africa.

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Historical Examples of agulhas

Here it strikes the Agulhas current at right angles, and hence possibly the deflection of a part of that current.
Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States
Raphael Semmes
One of these lonely towers stands more than eight hundred feet above the sea-level, and warns ships off the terrible Agulhas Bank.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876
Various
Or thirty miles, if we exclude the five days wasted in a vain effort to stem the Agulhas current (see p. 15).
A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499
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British Dictionary definitions for agulhas

Agulhas

noun

Cape Agulhas a headland in South Africa, the southernmost point of the African continent

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