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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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