- Cap Vert, or the Cape Verde Peninsula, is located in Senegal, and is the most westerly point of the continent of Africa. It was known to the Romans as Hesperu Ceras.
- The Cape Verde Islands are located 354 miles (570km) west of Cap Vert, and are named after the peninsular.
Pliny the Elder
- Pliny the Elder quotes the Greek Zenophon of Lampsacus as saying that the Cape Verde Islands (Gorgades), were two days sail from Cap Vert (Hesperu Ceras), the westernmost point of Africa).
Canary Current
- The Canary Current is the part of the Atlantic Gyre which flows south along the African Coast through the Canary Islands and Cape Verde Islands.
- It is a surface current driven by the wind, used by the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians to explore West Africa.
- It then turns west after the Cape Verde Islands and becomes the North Equatorial Current, a westward wind driven current, flowing west towards the Caribbean.
Cape Vert, Senegal