Tak sangka ada juga pelawat yang datang dari tempat yang tidak kita ketahui. Lantas buka Google Map untuk melihat nama pulau tersebut dan inilah hasilnya. Walaupun ada sebuah lagi pulau ke arah utaranya Principe, tapi saya rasa pelawat itu dari Sao Tome kerana kemudahan yang ada pada pulau itu.
Sebuah Pulau kecil di Teluk Guiana, bernama São Tomé (population 56,166 in 2005) is the capital city of São Tomé and Príncipe and is by far that nation's largest town. Its name is Portuguese for "Saint Thomas". Sumber : Wikipedia.
São Tomé was founded by Portugal in 1485. The Portuguese came to São Tomé in search of land to grow sugar. The island was uninhabited before the arrival of the Portuguese sometime around 1470. São Tomé was right on the equator and wet enough to grow sugar in wild abundance. Its proximity to the African Kingdom of Kongo provided an eventual source of slave laborers to work the sugar plantations. São Tomé is centred on a sixteenth centurycathedral. Another early building is Fort São Sebastião, built in 1575 and now the São Tomé National Museum. In 1599, the city as well as the islands were taken by the Dutch for two days and again in 1641 for a year. It was the then colony's capital until 1753 and has been the national capital continuously since 1852. – Wikipedia. Selepas anda membaca posting ini bermakna anda sudah dapat satu pelajaran Geografi dari saya.
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