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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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A`jan Coast, a district on the E. coast of Africa, from Cape Guardafui to the mouth of the Juba, under the protectorate of Germany.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

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 Samuel Johnson

In the first place, Berberah is the true key of the Red Sea, the centre of East African traffic, and the only safe place for shipping upon the western Erythroean shore, from Suez to Guardafui.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Departing from Cananor, Suarez arrived off Melinda on the 1st of February; where, without landing himself, he sent Antonio de Saldanna to bring away the rich prizes he had formerly made at Cape Guardafui.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

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

From A Tramp's Notebook by Morley Roberts

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