Agulhas

[ uh-guhl-uhs; Portuguese ah-goo-lyuhsh ]

noun

1. Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of Africa.

Agulhas

/ əˈɡʌləs /

noun

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

Example Sentences

On the thirtieth, we made the most southern land of Africa, being cape Agulhas.

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Or thirty miles, if we exclude the five days wasted in a vain effort to stem the Agulhas current (see p. 15).

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Cape Agulhas, not far distant, is the real extremity of South Africa.

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One of these lonely towers stands more than eight hundred feet above the sea-level, and warns ships off the terrible Agulhas Bank.

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Here it strikes the Agulhas current at right angles, and hence possibly the deflection of a part of that current.

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