The voyage took the boat in an easterly direction around the globe, leaving the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn to the left before finishing across the same line as they started from.
With a little more wind, the Chinese might have rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
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Many Salem vessels followed the route around the Cape of Good Hope, and the East India Marine Society was founded here.
He championed to Queen Victoria the idea of a "civilized" corridor between the Cape of Good Hope and Cairo.
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He quit the race, abandoning his waiting wife, and carried on to the Cape of Good Hope for a second time.
Save the Children missions today stretch from the Arctic Circle to the Cape of Good Hope, providing food, education and medicine.
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Those can make up for a few days of Suez disruptions, and give shippers time to reroute around the Cape of Good Hope.
When Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1498, he opened direct access for Europe to India and the Arabian Gulf.
Courts refused, saying a contract is a contract, even though it meant shippers would have to make the lengthy journey around Africa's Cape of Good Hope.
However, travelling around South Africa's Cape of Good Hope would add several weeks to average journey times and substantially increase the cost of goods for consumers.
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.
Setting sail from Syria in 2008, The Phoenician covered 32, 000 kilometers over two years, battling everything from six-meter waves off the Cape of Good Hope to Somali pirates.
One shipping company announced last month it would bypass the region altogether, sailing instead around the Cape of Good Hope and adding thousands of kilometers to its voyages.
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At the southernmost point of the Cape Peninsula, the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve is home to Chacma baboons, ponderous, large antelopes called elands, ostriches, rare tortoises, bonteboks and zebras.
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.
Conversely, the ransoms mean higher insurance premiums for the rattled shipping industry, delays for customers as more ships choose the longer passage around the Cape of Good Hope, lower revenues for the Suez Canal, and for the oil markets yet another variable to work into already volatile prices.
Cape Town police have set up a special urban terrorist unit, Operation Good Hope, to investigate the incidents.
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