Cape Coast, or Cabo Corso, is a large town and the capital of Cape Coast Metropolitan District and Central Region of Akanland, Ghana, and is also the main settlement of the Fante (Fanti) people, or (Mfantsefo). Cape Coast is situated on its south to the Gulf of Guinea. Cape Coast is the third most populous settlement in Akanland, in terms of population, with a population of 169,894 people (2010 census). From the 16th century the town has changed hands between the British, the Portuguese, the Swedish, the Danish and the Dutch. The town's Fante name is Oguaa.
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“Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
And the sun looked over the mountain’s rim:
And straight was a path of gold for him,
And the need of a world of men for me.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)