South African update
January 31, 2010
34 degrees of latitude south. Very comfortable bottom tip of the African Continent. South of us, I was thinking today, is a maritime void that drops all the way to Antarctica. Ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Agulhas probably do so in an affectionate fashion, keeping land in sight, wary of open seas. Nearby, they know, the mighty Atlantic and Indian Oceans collide. And the skies over there, where no landmass remains, are surely empty too, exempt of air traffic; why would there be any? This is a space that leads...
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