Continuation of the discussion on Mr. H. Benest's paper “On some repairs to the South Amercian Company's cable off Cape Verde in 1893 and 1895”

After the Portuguese discovered the Cape Verde Islands in AD 1456 they divided its main island, Santiago, into two governing captaincies. The founding settlement in the south-west, Cidade Velha, soon became the Islands’ capital and a thriving trade centre; in contrast, that in the east, Alcatrazes, only lasted as an official seat from 1484–1516 and is held to have ‘failed’ (see Richter 2015).

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Further studies on trade winds during the glacial cycles

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A - Mathematical and Physical Sciences ◽

10.1098/rspa.1975.0175 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 346 (1645) ◽

pp. 245-260 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Keyword(s):

Organic Carbon ◽

Size Distribution ◽

Cape Verde ◽

Climatic Data ◽

The South ◽

Glacial Cycles ◽

Cape Verde Islands ◽

Trade Winds ◽

The North ◽

Quartz Grains

Core V19-301 (south of Cape Verde Islands) has been analysed in detail for (i) size distribution of quartz grains, (ii) mineralogy, (iii) colour and organic carbon (iv) G. menardii foraminifera, and (v) total foraminifera and carbonate. These results are compared with those previously obtained on core V23-100 (north of Cape Verde Islands). It is believed that the carbonate variations can be used to establish simultaneity between the cores, and thus the following climatic data emerge: ( a ) During glacial stages the trade winds were more vigorous than normal for the region north of the Cape Verdes; but the wintertime Harmattan was weaker than normal for the region south of the Cape Verdes. ( b ) The land to the north of Dakar remained desert, and was especially arid during glacials, whereas to the south of Dakar conditions oscillated between desert during interglacials, and savannah during glacials, ( c ) These wind and rainfall oscillations were more rapid and less excursive at around 0.7 Ma than they were in later glacial cycles.

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CABO VERDE E O ESPAÇO DO ATLÂNTICO

Austral Brazilian Journal of Strategy & International Relations ◽

10.22456/2238-6912.70168 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (11) ◽

Author(s):

Francisco P. Garcia

Keyword(s):

European Community ◽

Economic Importance ◽

South Atlantic ◽

Cape Verde ◽

The South ◽

Cabo Verde

This paper seeks to show that the centrality of the Atlantic continues to be a reality, above all, by maintaining the geo-economic importance of the European Community, by the new dynamism of the transatlantic link but mainly by the interest shown by emerging and re-emergent powers in the South Atlantic. In this context, Cape Verde plays in the Atlantic an interesting integrating role.

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Out of the box: Southwards and Eastwards notes on a new geography of criticism

SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal ◽

10.5937/saj1103184f ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 184-199

Author(s):

Jorge Figueira

Keyword(s):

Critical Theory ◽

Cape Verde ◽

Southern Europe ◽

Anglo Saxon ◽

The South ◽

Ongoing Debate ◽

Material Wealth ◽

American Universities ◽

Theory And Criticism ◽

New Geography

Viewed from the 'Southern Europe', the theoretical/critical debate in the Anglo-Saxon world, in particular the ongoing debate at the American universities is perplexing. It is a world of opulence and loftiness, not in this case on the level of material wealth, but intellectual wealth. If we understand that the omnipresence of 'critical theory' has an inhibitive effect on a sensory relationship with architecture, and that dichotomies such as critical/projective are schematic, the truth is that we need to leave behind atavisms that diminish the approach in 'Southern Europe': the local against the global; the space against the images; the young against the old. Theory and criticism have much to gain from allowing themselves to be provoked by the unknown. I would like to concretize these ideas by revisiting two recent experiences: to the South, Cape Verde, and to the East, Macau. They are border situations of wealth and material prosperity in Macau; and of poverty and obstruction in Cape Verde. How are these territories read and criticized? The architecture we find there is outside the history based on the MoMA. In China one hears the echo of echoes, increasingly. In Africa, one can hear the distant resonance of those echoes. Where are we beyond 'post-criticism'.

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Status of Raso Lark Alauda razae with notes on threats and foraging behaviour

Bird Conservation International ◽

10.1017/s0959270900003336 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 43-46 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Norman Ratcliffe ◽

Luis R. Monteiro ◽

Cornelis J. Hazevoet

Keyword(s):

Endangered Species ◽

Foraging Behaviour ◽

Cape Verde ◽

The South ◽

Rocky Desert ◽

The North ◽

River Valleys

The Raso Lark Alauda razae is a globally endangered species that is endemic to the islet of Raso (16°93′ N, 24°38′ W) in the Cape Verde archipelago (Collar et al. 1994). Raso is a small (c.7 km2) uninhabited islet with a plain averaging 25 m in elevation to the south and west and small boulder-strewn hills to the north and east rising up to 164 m (Figure 1). The islet comprises mostly rocky desert, with some extensive sandy patches on the western plain. Vegetation is sparse and confined to small patches on the plains and along dry river valleys.

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Assimilation in Eighteenth-Century Senegal

The Journal of African History ◽

10.1017/s0021853700005594 ◽

1965 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 177-184 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

John D. Hargreaves

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Cape Verde ◽

The South ◽

Preliminary Discussion ◽

European Values ◽

French Colonial ◽

Civic Institutions

This preliminary discussion of the process of assimilation in eighteenth-century Senegal considers how Africans were drawn into the French colonial community through employment; trade; marriage and concubinage; and also through the Portuguese Creole communities to the south of Cape Verde. The extent of their assimilation is discussed with reference to religion; participation in civic institutions; and the acceptance of certain European values. Finally the question of how deeply the colonial community was influenced by African values is briefly raised.

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South Africa and Portugal

Issue A Journal of Opinion ◽

10.1017/s0047160700007095 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 9-20

Author(s):

Basil Davidson

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Public Policy ◽

United Nations ◽

South African ◽

Central Element ◽

Economic Structure ◽

Cape Verde ◽

The South ◽

The Republic ◽

The Military

A central element in the story of southern Africa during the early 1970s is the quietly persistent penetration in to neighboring countries of dominant interests—whether economic, political or even military—of the Republic of South Africa. As the motives for this expansion have become clearer, so too has the crucial nature of the importance to the South African system of the Portuguese colonialist positions in Angola and Mozambique, and, by an inseparable extension, in Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde archipelago.This significance to South Africa of the “Portuguese territories” is now observable in all major fields of public policy and action, and ranges from the military-logistical to the very interstices of the South African economic structure. An understanding of the South African government's relations with these territories, as well as of its relations with the Portuguese regime in Lisbon, must therefore be essential to a realistic estimate of likely developments in the subcontinent, and bears, accordingly, a direct meaning for the policies and intentions of the United Nations.

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