Cape Mesurado
Coordinates: 6 ° 19 ′ 19 ″ N , 10 ° 48 ′ 58 ″ W.
Cape Mesurado is a cape on the West African Atlantic coast in the province of Montserrado in Liberia . The striking place protrudes about 7 kilometers from the coastline and has a striking mountain on which a lighthouse for the port of Monrovia was built in the 19th century .
history
Pedro de Sintra , a Portuguese explorer, reached the cape in 1461. He called it because of the difference in altitude to the higher, more western cape Mount Cape Mesurado (German: the "modest, moderate" cape).
Others
The western tip of Cape Mesurado was named Mamba Point .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Ankenbauer (2010), 204–205.
literature
Ankenbauer, Norbert (2010): "I wanted to experience more about newer dyng". The language of the new in the Paesi novamente retrovati (Vicenza, 1507) and in its German translation (Nuremberg, 1508). Berlin: Frank & Timme.