Cape Chaunar

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Cape Chaunar is situated on the western coast of Africa, in the south of Morocco.

It was called Cape Non, Cape Não, Cape Nam ("Cape No") by Portuguese mariners during the fifteenth century. It was considered the impassable limit for navigators, the non plus ultra beyond which no navigation could occur.

The thirteenth century Genovese navigators Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi may have sailed as far as Cape Non before being lost at sea. In 1415, one of the exploring vessels sent by Henry the Navigator travelled 180 miles past Cape Non to Cape Bijander