Cape Agulhas

Cape Agulhas (GC77E) is placed at the real end of Africa. Cape Agulhas marks the southernmost point of the African continent and the official boundary between the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. Portuguese navigators named it "Cabo das Agulhas" because their compass needle there pointed exactly to true north.

The coast is a graveyard of ships - some 150 have gone down here, and the bow of the Japanese trawler Meisho Maru 38, run aground in 1982, is still rusting on the shore. Hence the lighthouse modelled on the one at Alexandria, lit on 1 March 1849. Around it stretches Agulhas National Park, and since 2019 a relief map of Africa facing the ocean.

The cache itself dates from 21 April 2001. It is the third oldest still in play in South Africa, signed Peter Scholtz, one of the two geocachers who placed most of the country's first caches. He came back to see it in December 2019, almost nineteen years later, to refresh the photos and the hint. It is still there, under its pile of stones.