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Module:Location map/data/South Africa Western Cape Greater Cape Town is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Cape Town. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Western Cape – Province of South Africa; Cape Fold Mountains – Paleozoic fold and thrust belt in South Africa; Devil's Peak – Mountain peak in Cape Town, South Africa; Lion's Head – Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa; Mesa – Elevated area of land with a flat top and sides, usually much wider than buttes; Table Mountain National Park ...
Geological map of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay Geological section of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay. Cape Town lies at the south-western corner of the continent of Africa. It is bounded to the south and west by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the north and east by various other municipalities in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
Cape Point (Afrikaans: Kaappunt) is a promontory at the southeast corner of the Cape Peninsula, a mountainous and scenic landform that runs north-south for about thirty kilometres at the extreme southwestern tip of the African continent in South Africa. Table Mountain and the city of Cape Town are
The Cape Peninsula is 52 km long from Mouille point in the north to Cape Point in the south, [1] with an area of about 470 km 2, and it displays more topographical variety than other similar sized areas in southern Africa, and consequently spectacular scenery. There are diverse low-nutrient soils, large rocky outcrops, scree slopes, a mainly ...
Cape Town [a] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [13] Cape Town is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [14] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality.
Chapman's Peak is a mountain on the western side of the Cape Peninsula, between Hout Bay and Noordhoek in Cape Town, South Africa.The western flank of the mountain falls sharply for hundreds of metres into the Atlantic Ocean, and a road, known as Chapman's Peak Drive, hugs the near-vertical face of the mountain, linking Hout Bay to Noordhoek.
Descending from the Snow Mountains, a scene near Graaff-Reinet, by William Burchell. The Sneeuberge or Sneeuberg mountain range was historically known as “Sneeuwbergen”, meaning ‘snow mountains’ in Cape Dutch, and refers to a significant portion of Southern Africa's Great Escarpment in the Cradock, Murraysburg, Richmond, Graaff-Reinet, Nieu-Bethesda and Middelburg districts of the ...