The world's highest mountain range is the Himalayas. It is located in Asia. The tallest mountain in the world (above sea level) is Mount Everest, which is located in the Himal â¦ ayas.
The term 'Barbary Coast' is borrowed from the Barbary Coast of North Africa where local pirates and slave traders launched raids on nearby coastal towns and vessels. That African region was also notorious for the same kind of predatory dives which would target sailors, as had been done on San Francisco's Barbary Coast.
(Photo: Tom Brakefield/Stockbyte/Getty Images ) The Cape of Good Hope is a peninsula just outside the city of Cape Town in South Africa. The Cape of Good Hope itself is a rocky promontory at the tip of the Cape peninsula and in the past marked the point where a ship traveling south from Europe turned east. Today, most of the Cape peninsula, including the Cape of Good Hope, is part of Table Mountain National Park.