Cape Town


This photograph shows just how important Cape Town was becoming as a thriving port. Europeans found the weather and geography of South Africa to be quite pleasant to deal with. It was also strategically well placed to take advantage of routes to and from South America, Asia and Australia although the building of the Suez Canal would undermine these latter two somewhat.


Africa


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