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At nearby Mountain Top — 1,547 ft (472 m) above the bay, and higher than Drake’s Seat — you’ll find a sophisticated shopping mall and large bar area with almost non-stop daiquiris (they claim to have invented the banana daiquiri here).
, the opening of the Drake Passage and the cooling of Antarctica) and phylogenetic history have played major roles in generating current patterns in diversity, and tend to emphasise regional (and especially longitudinal) differences therein (Qian and Ricklefs 2004; Ricklefs 2004).
In 1587 a squadron of British ships commanded by Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (now a “legitimate target” as Spanish territory) and sacked Sagres, thus depriving the world of the relics of Henry the Navigator.
Before long, pirates heard about the riches brought to Acapulco — the port was visited both by Sir Francis Drake and the British pirate, Thomas Cavendish.
Just as Portugal’s forced alliance with Spain had made the country a target for Drake’s 16th-century raids, now her friendly alliance with England rankled Napoleon.