Cape Agulhas - Cape Town Travel Guide - South Africa Contradictory to popular belief Cape Town is not the southern tip of Africa. Cape Agulhas is the meeting point of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and is the southern-most point of Africa. The waters in this region are not very deep and offer an excellent opportunity for fishing. This area is also known as the "Agulhas bank" and the ocean only gets deeper than 100m after one has travelled about 250km out to sea.   Portuguese sailors used to call the Cape the "Needle Cape". This might have been because their compass needles used to point only to the north when they were at the southern tips. Another theory is that there were many sharp rocks around the Cape that might have suggested the name "Needle Cape".   Numerous shipwrecks have accumulated around the Cape Agulhas coastline, which reminds us of the heavy storms that are encountered here.   It is worth visiting the lighthouse that was erected in 1848. This tower is still used today and has a range of about 60 km.   The vegetation around the coastline includes a variety of plants, especially Fynbos that is indigenous to this area of South Africa. This region is also part of a National Park.         False Bay - Cape Agulhas - Hermanus - Gansbaai - Namakwaland - Karoo