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Cape Chaunar, Cape Nun, ''Cap Noun'', ''Cabo de Não'' or ''Nant''〔Alexandre Magno de Castilho, ("Descripção e roteiro da costa occidental de Africa: desde o cabo de Espartel até o das Agulhas, Volume 1" ), p.62, Imprensa Nacional, 1866 (description of the western African coast in Portuguese)〕 is a cape on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in southern Morocco, between Tarfaya and Sidi Ifni. By the 15th century it was considered insurmountable by Arabs and Europeans, thus resulting its his name meaning cape "no" in Portuguese. Cape Chaunar is the true northern coastal limit of the Sahara desert, although nearby Cape Bojador is frequently mistakenly called this.〔Alexandre Magno de Castilho, ("Descripção e roteiro da costa occidental de Africa" ), p.65〕 == History == The thirteenth century Genovese navigators Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi may have sailed as far as Cape Non before being lost at sea. It was named ''Cape de Não'' ("Cape No") by Portuguese mariners during the fifteenth century, being considered the impassable limit for Arab and European sailors, the ''non plus ultra'' beyond which no navigation could occur.〔John Locke, ("The works of John Locke: in nine volumes, Volume 9" The history of navigation, p. 385 ), Printed for C. and J. Rivington, 1824〕 ''"Quem o passa tornará ou não"'' (those who cross it, return or not), wrote Venetian explorer Alvise Cadamosto in his book "Navigazione". Starting in 1421, exploratory vessels were sent by Prince Henry the Navigator, managing to cross Cape Non and reaching Cape Bojador, then considered the southern limit of the world, stretching into the ''"dark sea"''〔William D'Hertburn, ''Progress and Prosperity: The Old World and Its Remaking Into the New'', 1911〕 (Latin ''Mare Tenebrarum'', ''Mare Tenebrosum'' or ''Bahr al-Zulumat'' in Arabic) the medieval name for the Atlantic Ocean inaccessible to the sailors of the time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cape Chaunar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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