Cape Agulhas - Western Cape South Africa

Cape Agulhas is situauted in the Western Cape of South Africa and is the southernmost point of Africa. The old white and red banded Cape Agulhas lighthouse is now a museum and National Monument. Early Portuguese navigators found this a strange place as 500 years ago the compass showed no variation between true and magnetic north. Nowadays there is a 24º variation west, as the magnetic poles are constantly moving. Cape Agulhas is an often windy and desolate place that really does feel like the end of the earth.