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What landmark did Bartolomeu Dias de Novais erect at what came later to be called Kwaaihoek in 1488?

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Dias landed and supervised the erection of a padrão, a square limestone pillar cut and inscribed in Portugal and surmounted by a block with the Portuguese coat of arms and a cross.

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