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Cape Spartel (Arabic: رأس سبارطيل‎) is a promontory in Morocco about 1,000 feet above sea level at the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, 12 km West of Tangier. It is frequently but incorrectly referred as the northernmost point of Africa, which is instead Ras ben Sakka, Tunisia.

Near Cape Spartel is Spartel Bank, a sunken island hypothesized by some as the location of the legendary island of Atlantis.^{[1] [2]}

[edit] See also

• Cape Malabata
• Battle of Cape Spartel
• Battle of Cape Espartel

[edit] References

Coordinates: 35°48′02″N 5°54′22″W / 35.80056°N 5.90611°W / 35.80056; -5.90611

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[edit] Bibliography

F. Tamburini, Il faro di Capo Spartel (1865-1958), un esempio di cooperazione internazionale in Africa attraverso i secoli XIX e XX, in “Africana, Rivista di studi extraeuropei”, n. IX, 2003