Editing Cape Point (section)

{{short description|Headland in the Western Cape, South Africa}}
{{about|the promontory in South Africa|the headland in Gambia|Bakau}}
{{distinguish|Cape of Good Hope}}
{{Use South African English|date=July 2024}}
[[File:Goodhope2.jpg|thumb|300px|Cape Point in the left foreground, with the [[Cape of Good Hope]] almost right behind and some 2.3 km away]]
[[File:Cape Point, Sudáfrica, 2018-07-23, DD 109-111 PAN.jpg|thumb|300px|Looking from behind the old lighthouse (at top left) to the new lighthouse (a sunlit speck of white very near the point). The lighthouses are 700 metres apart, and the new lighthouse 162 metres lower in altitude so as to remain visible during low cloud.]]
'''Cape Point''' ({{langx|af|Kaappunt}}) is a [[promontory]] at the southeast corner of the [[Cape Peninsula]], a mountainous and scenic landform that runs north-south for about thirty kilometres at the extreme southwestern tip of the [[Africa]]n continent in [[South Africa]]. [[Table Mountain]] and the city of [[Cape Town]] are close to the northern extremity of the same peninsula. The cape is located at {{coord|34|21|26|S|18|29|51|E|display=inline,title|region:ZA_type:landmark}}, about 2.3&nbsp;kilometres (1.4&nbsp;mi) east and a little north of the [[Cape of Good Hope]] on the southwest corner.<ref>[http://sagns.dac.gov.za/intranet/ApplicationMap.asp?MapState=-34357222|18497500|40000&buttonCommand=ZoomIn&mapFromApp= Topo map of Cape Point]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot= InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}, from the South African Geographical Names System</ref>  Although these two rocky capes are very well known, neither cape is actually the southernmost point of the mainland of Africa; that is [[Cape Agulhas]], approximately {{convert|150|km}} to the [[east-southeast]].