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Cape Spartel

Cape Spartel is a promontory

Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment....
in Morocco

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
about 1,000 feet above sea level at the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar

Strait of Gibraltar

The Strait of Gibraltar is the strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Spain from Morocco. The name comes from Gibraltar, which in turn originates from the Arabic language Jebel Tariq meaning mountain of Tariq....
, some km West of Tangier. It is frequently and wrongly referred as the northernmost point of Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
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Near Cape Spartel is Spartel Bank

Spartel

Spartel Bank or Maju?n Bank is a submerged former island located in the Strait of Gibraltar at 35?55' N 5?58' W near Cape Spartel, its highest point currently 56 meters below the surface....
, a sunken island hypothesized by some as the location of the legendary island of Atlantis

Atlantis

Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias .In Plato's account, Atlantis was a naval power lying "in front of the Pillars of Hercules" that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9,000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC....
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Cape Spartel is a promontory

Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment....
in Morocco

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
about 1,000 feet above sea level at the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar

Strait of Gibraltar

The Strait of Gibraltar is the strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Spain from Morocco. The name comes from Gibraltar, which in turn originates from the Arabic language Jebel Tariq meaning mountain of Tariq....
, some km West of Tangier. It is frequently and wrongly referred as the northernmost point of Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
.

Near Cape Spartel is Spartel Bank

Spartel

Spartel Bank or Maju?n Bank is a submerged former island located in the Strait of Gibraltar at 35?55' N 5?58' W near Cape Spartel, its highest point currently 56 meters below the surface....
, a sunken island hypothesized by some as the location of the legendary island of Atlantis

Atlantis

Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias .In Plato's account, Atlantis was a naval power lying "in front of the Pillars of Hercules" that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9,000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC....
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See also

Cape Malabata
Cape Malabata

Cape Malabata is a cape located at 6 miles east of Tangier, Morocco facing the Strait of Gibraltar. The cape features a lighthouse and a medieval looking castle built in early 20th century....
Battle of Cape Spartel
Battle of Cape Spartel

}|-||}The Battle of Cape Spartel was an indecisive naval battle between a France-Spain fleet under Admiral Luis de C?rdova y C?rdova and a Kingdom of Britain fleet under Admiral Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe....
Battle of Cape Espartel
Battle of Cape Espartel

The Battle of Cape Espartel was a naval battle of the Spanish Civil War that broke the Second Spanish Republic blockade of the Strait of Gibraltar, securing the naval supply route to Spanish Morocco for the Nationalist Spain early in the war....