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Favorite thing: While In Cape Agulhas, one would be able to see two Oceans at the same time: The Indian Ocean & the Atlantic Ocean.

Cape Agulhas is the place where those two oceans meet. One can even put his each foot in different oceans at the same time :)

Favorite thing: Two Oceans are being pictured on this photo. I took this shot. I'm the artist of this picture. Look forward and draw an imaginary line right in the middle: on the left you are seeing the Indian Ocean -&- on the right side you are seeing the Atlantic Ocean.
See that ? - I'm an artist. :)

by Mário Ferreira - South Africa - 2010.

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Favorite thing: The Atlantic Ocean - pictured on this Tip:

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about 106,400,000 square kilometres (41,100,000 sq mi), it covers approximately twenty percent of the Earth's surface and about twenty-six percent of its water surface area. The first part of its name refers to the Atlas of Greek mythology, making the Atlantic the "Sea of Atlas" [...]

on Wikipedia.
url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean

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Favorite thing: The Indian Ocean - pictured on this Tip

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian subcontinent; on the west by East Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, by Antarctica). It is the only ocean to be named after a country, i.e., India.

As one component of the interconnected global ocean, the Indian Ocean is delineated from the Atlantic Ocean by the 20° east meridian running south from Cape Agulhas, [...]

on Wikipedia.
url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_ocean