Cape Agulhas is the southern-most point of the African continent and the place where the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean officially meet. In reality oceans do not meet at a point and the whole of the Overberg coast is the place where the warm water of the Agulhas Current from the tropics mingles with the cooler water of the Benguela Current waters from the western coast of Africa. The temperature of the ocean water at the Overberg coast can see a sudden temperature-rise or -drop from one day to the other for this reason. The meeting of these two currents also explains the rich and special marine life on these shores.

"Agulhas" is the Portuguese word for needles. A possible explanation for the name Cape Agulhas is that at this Cape a compass makes no distinction between true and magnetic north. Cape Agulhas is reached through the coastal town of Struisbaai, thinly stretched out along a coastal road. At Cape Agulhas proper there is the Cape Agulhas Lighthouse and -a short walk from the lighthouse- a plaque marking the "exact" border between Atlantic- and Indian- Ocean.

Cape Agulhas is part of the Agulhas National Park, an ambitious project to safeguard the enormous biodiversity in this area.