INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first European to sight the cape was Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 on his return voyage to Portugal after ascertaining the southern limits of the African continent.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bartolomeu Dias, also called Bartholomew Diaz, was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed Europeans there was a feasible route to India around the storm-driven southern tip of Africa.

Detailed explanation-3: -The correct answer is option 2 i.e. South Africa. Cape of Good Hope is a rocky promontory (a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water) at the southern end of Cape Peninsula, which is also home to Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa.