The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that, the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa. This misconception was based on the misbelief that the Cape was the dividing point between the Atlantic ocean and Indian Oceans.
Currently, geographic knowledge instead states the southernmost point of Africa is Cape Agulhas about 150 kilometres (93 mi) to the east-southeast. The tides of the two oceans meet at the point where the warm-water Agulhas current meets the cold-water Benguela current and turns back on itself. The oceanic meeting point varies between Cape Agulhas and Cape Point (about 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) east of the Cape of Good Hope).
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