Cape Verde

So named because Portuguese people apparently don't know the difference between a cape and an archipelago (retards), Cape Verde is a collection of islands located in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa (apparently someplace called Macaronesia, which I would have guessed was either a pasta or a disease, but never an ecoregion! [Author's Note: I do not know what an ecoregion is and I will not look it up, either]). Cape Verde was uninhabited prior to 1462, when it was discovered by the Portuguese, whose national motto at the time was "We have found some land, and therefore we must put some white people on it" (however you say that in Portuguese).

Looking east from Cape Verde on a clear day, you can see Senegal, although I'm not sure why you'd want to.