What Is Hidden Beneath the Cape Verde Islands? 8 Terrifying Secrets

What Is Hidden Beneath the Cape Verde Islands? 8 Terrifying Secrets What do you build on an island with no history at all? Cape Verde had to answer that question for real — ten volcanic islands, completely empty when Portugal found them in the fifteenth century, with no trace that a single human being had ever set foot there. What Portugal built instead was the first European settlement in the tropics, and within a century, one of the busiest slave-trading ports in the Atlantic. Since then, this archipelago has produced a village that rebuilds itself on top of an active volcano's lava, a permanently uninhabited island, and a shipwreck still standing after fifty-five years. Let's discuss these secrets in this video.