the Southernmost Tip of Africa. The old lighthouse is now a museum and National Monument.

Portuguese seafarers found this a strange place as 500 years ago the compass showed no variation between true and magnetic north. They named Africa's southern-most tip, "Needle Cape". An alternative opinion says that the name stems from the ragged and pointed reefs offshore. 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.