# Cape Chaunar

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{{Short description|Cape in southern Morocco}}
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'''Cape Chaunar''', '''Cap Uarsig''', '''Cape Nun''', '''''Cap Noun''''', '''''Cabo de Não''''' or '''''Nant'''''<ref>Alexandre Magno de Castilho,
[https://books.google.com/books?id=8ikiSWPVYDUC&pg=1 "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)</ref> is a [cape](/source/Cape_(geography)) on the Atlantic coast of [Africa](/source/Africa), in southern [Morocco](/source/Morocco), between [Tarfaya](/source/Tarfaya) and [Sidi Ifni](/source/Sidi_Ifni). By the 15th century it was considered insurmountable by Arabs and Europeans, thus resulting in the name meaning cape "no" in Portuguese. Cape Chaunar is the true northern coastal limit of the [Sahara desert](/source/Sahara_desert), although nearby [Cape Bojador](/source/Cape_Bojador) is frequently mistakenly called this.<ref>Alexandre Magno de Castilho,
[https://books.google.com/books?id=8ikiSWPVYDUC&pg=1 "Descripção e roteiro da costa occidental de Africa"], p.65</ref>

== History ==
The thirteenth-century [Genovese](/source/Genoa) navigators [Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi](/source/Vandino_and_Ugolino_Vivaldi) may have sailed as far as Cape Non before being lost at sea. It was named ''Cabo do Não'' ("Cape No") by [Portuguese](/source/Portugal) mariners during the fifteenth century, being considered the impassable limit for [Arab](/source/Arab) and [Europe](/source/Europe)an sailors, the ''non plus ultra'' beyond which no navigation could occur. This was due to the cape running far out into the sea, causing it to break and appear dangerous.<ref>[John Locke](/source/John_Locke), [https://books.google.com/books?id=eMl8Np7zLiQC&q=1 "The works of John Locke: in nine volumes, Volume 9" The history of navigation, p. 385], Printed for [C. and J. Rivington](/source/Rivington_(publishers)), 1824</ref>
"Quem o passa tornará ou não" (whoever passes it will make it or not), wrote Venetian explorer [Alvise Cadamosto](/source/Alvise_Cadamosto) in his book ''Navigazione''.
Starting in 1417, exploratory vessels were sent by Prince [Henry the Navigator](/source/Henry_the_Navigator), managing to cross Cape Non and reaching [Cape Bojador](/source/Cape_Bojador), then considered the southern limit of the world, stretching into the "dark sea"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_Ro9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP1 William D'Hertburn, ''Progress and Prosperity: The Old World and Its Remaking Into the New'', 1911]</ref> ([Latin](/source/Latin) ''Mare Tenebrarum'', ''Mare Tenebrosum'' or ''Bahr al-Zulumat'' in Arabic), the medieval name for the southern Atlantic Ocean, inaccessible to the sailors of the time.

==References==
{{commons category|Cap Draa}}
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== Sources ==
*Robert Kerr, General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels
*[Chambers Book of Days](/source/Chambers_Book_of_Days) [https://www.thebookofdays.com/months/nov/20.htm November 20th]
*[http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/10803/143.html Bookrags.com Info]

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