False Cape Mount
Coordinates: 6 ° 42 '54.4 " N , 11 ° 22' 5.4" W.
The False Cape Mount (German: the false Cape Mount) on the West African Atlantic coast is a prominent point on the Liberian coast, recognizable as a striking, densely forested mountain. It is located barely four kilometers east of the “real” Cape Mount and could therefore easily be confused with the correct sea mark in poor visibility (hazy atmosphere or rain). In historical English nautical charts of the 17th century, the Cape near Robertsport was also referred to as Little Cape Mount or Half Cape Mount .
history
The first European to reach the coastal region around Cape Mount was the Portuguese explorer Diogo Gomes in 1458 . He toured the west coast of Africa on behalf of Henry the Navigator . A closer study of the Pepper Coast , to which this region belongs, was carried out by Pieto de Sintra and Luis de Cadamosto .
literature
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Ed.): NGA Sailing Directions-Enroute: 2008 West Coast of Europe and Northwest Africa . Pub. 143. Annapolis MD 2009, ISBN 978-1-57785-885-0 , Sierra Leone and Liberia - The Banana Islands to Cape Palmas, pp. 253 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jacqueline Penjon, Georges Boisvert, Anne-Marie Quint: Vents du large: hommage à Georges Boisvert . Éditeur Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-87854-240-1 , Cabo cortês ou cabo mesurado…, p. 32–33 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).