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- proper noun a cape in southwestern
South Africa , near Cape Town.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a point of land in southwestern South Africa (south of Cape Town)
- noun a province of western South Africa
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The Cape of Good Hope, which is _not_ the extremity of Southern Africa, as some geographers have it -- "Lagullas" protruding further into the
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay
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The route around the Cape of Good Hope is a main thoroughfare for fully-laden supertankers from the Gulf.
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The route around the Cape of Good Hope is a main thoroughfare for fully-laden supertankers from the Gulf.
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The route around the Cape of Good Hope is a main thoroughfare for fully-laden supertankers from the Gulf, the world's biggest oil-exporting region.
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The route around the Cape of Good Hope is a main thoroughfare for fully-laden supertankers from the Gulf.
British Blogs 2008
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The route around the Cape of Good Hope is a main thoroughfare for fully-laden supertankers from the Gulf, the world's biggest oil-exporting region.
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The route around the Cape of Good Hope is a main thoroughfare for fully-laden supertankers from the Gulf.
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The route around the Cape of Good Hope is a main thoroughfare for fully-laden supertankers from the Gulf.
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The route around the Cape of Good Hope is a main thoroughfare for fully-laden supertankers from the Gulf.
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And, you know, you have very vulnerable vessels carrying 300,000 tons and more of crude oil, for example, from the Arabian Gulf coming down south toward the Cape of Good Hope which has to pass through this area.
Report Finds Increase in Global Sea Piracy But Less Successful Attacks 2011
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