EXPEDITIONS · 1488
Kwaaihoek, South Africa
Bartolomeu Dias’s padrão marked the furthest point of his voyage. Fragments were found in 1938 by the historian Eric Axelson.
The story, as a puzzle
The crew wanted to go home.
In 1488, a Portuguese captain who had just rounded the southern end of Africa without seeing it, blown past in a storm, set up a stone cross on a headland before his tired crew forced him to turn back. Pin the headland.
Where it is
Think you'd have found it on the map?
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