Ras Nouadhibou (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ras Nouadhibou is a 40-mile peninsula or headland in the African coast of the Atlantic Ocean by the Tropic of Cancer. It is internationally known as Cap Blanc in French or Cabo Blanco in Spanish (both meaning "White Cape"). Portuguese sailing explorers first reached Cap Blanc in 1441. The Spanish originally claimed the land from 20 51' N (near Cap Blanc) to 26 8' N (near Cape Bojador) in 1885. This would be a protectorate governed from the Canary Islands in 1887. France would later claim the Western Sahara. The boundary was settled in a joint French-Spanish convention in 1900 to divide the area between Spanish Sahara and French West Africa.