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Cape Bojador
Cape Bojador is a headland on the Atlantic coast of Western Sahara, south of the Canary Islands. Its shoals, currents and winds made medieval European sailors fear that ships could not return from beyond it. In 1434 the Portuguese navigator Gil Eanes, sent by Prince Henry the Navigator, rounded it and came back, opening the way for Portuguese exploration of the West African coast.
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