[:ja]デービッド・サンジャック宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影した南アフリカの喜望峰です。
喜望峰は南アフリカ第2の都市ケープタウンから50km南へ延びたケープ半島の突端にあります。ケープタウンの南のテーブルマウンテンと同じ珪質砂岩でできています。半島の東はフォールス湾です。喜望峰がアフリカ大陸の最南端と言われることがありますが、実際には東南東へ約150km離れているアガラス岬が最南端です。
地上の様子はこちらです。
参考文献： David Saint-Jacques’s Tweet
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.780: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa🇿🇦
David Saint-Jacques captured from ISS Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, which is actually the Cape Agulhas about 150km to the east-southeast. The currents of the two oceans meet at the point where the warm-water Agulhas current meets the cold-water Benguela current and turns back on itself. When following the western side of the African coastline from the equator, however, the Cape of Good Hope marks the point where a ship begins to travel more eastward than southward. As one of the great capes of the South Atlantic Ocean, the Cape of Good Hope has long been of special significance to sailors, many of whom refer to it simply as “the Cape”.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: David Saint-Jacques’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.780: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa🇿🇦
David Saint-Jacques captured from ISS Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, which is actually the Cape Agulhas about 150km to the east-southeast. The currents of the two oceans meet at the point where the warm-water Agulhas current meets the cold-water Benguela current and turns back on itself. When following the western side of the African coastline from the equator, however, the Cape of Good Hope marks the point where a ship begins to travel more eastward than southward. As one of the great capes of the South Atlantic Ocean, the Cape of Good Hope has long been of special significance to sailors, many of whom refer to it simply as “the Cape”.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: David Saint-Jacques’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]