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Castle of Good Hope
Castle of Good Hope: At Cape Town (MP) 2018 003

Photo: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Star fort · Cape Town, South Africa

Castle of Good HopeSuspected

On the globe
Dated
Dated 1666–79
Declared purpose
Fort
Today
Survives, museum and military
Build time
About 13 years
Region
Africa
On the list as
Suspected

Why it's on the list

A pentagonal star fort, the oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa.

Hidden history

Found, Not Built

A five-pointed star fort, the oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa.

  1. Why researchers flag it

    A pentagonal star fort, the oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa.

  2. A pentagon

    A five-bastion star.

  3. Oldest

    The oldest surviving colonial building in the country.

Questions worth asking

  • Why the same star at the tip of Africa?

Possible original uses

  • Fort

What the photos show

Sources

Further viewing

Episodes from My Lunch Break (Michael Kruse), the main lens for this app. They open on YouTube.

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