Tropical Storm Florence strengthened a bit Saturday over the open Atlantic Ocean, its center about 515 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands as it headed toward the Leeward Islands.

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One travelled from the river mouth all the way to the west coast of the Cape York Peninsula, in Queensland's far north.

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The Portuguese navigators who had daringly rounded Cape Bojador in west Africa in 1434 did not take long to seize Goa and then Malacca--the center of a lush trade in cloth and spices.

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Sandra Cruz from Cape Verde, off the West African coast, addressed the panel while cradling her 15-month-old daughter.

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To do that, the ocean-trotter hitched a ride on a current within the Gulf of Carpentaria (that separates Cape York from Arnhem Land, to the west).

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The five were then taken to nearby Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony about 1, 000km (620 miles) west of Guinea-Bissau, the TV station reported.

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Robert takes me west of town to an 18th-century lighthouse, and dunes that stretch all to the way to Cape Algulhas, the southernmost point in Africa.

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