In 1497, Portuguese navigator Vasco Da Gama became the first to sail round the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a sea route to India.

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The company is speculating that the ship may be linked to Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias, who went missing in 1500 after becoming the first European seafarer to round the Cape of Good Hope.

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This reinforced the Americans' desire to build and control a canal across the isthmus of Panama, so that their ships could move between the Atlantic and the Pacific without going all the way round Cape Horn (as the American battleship Oregon had to do during the war).

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They skirt Antarctica and dreaded icebergs to New Zealand, before setting off to round the notoriously dangerous Cape Horn enroute to Brazil.

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Our plan had been to round the end of the Ningaloo peninsula (Cape Range National Park), do a little snorkeling at such stunning beaches as Oyster Stacks, then double back to Coral Bay.

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The competition will move on from Dubai to George, near Cape Town, for the second round of the eight-tournament series the following weekend.

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In the 91 x 72 cm portrait, Rembrandt is wearing a black velvet cap with two ostrich feathers, a decorative metal band worn round the neck and a short, decorated velvet cape.

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