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Historically, Saint Helena Bay is the location where Vasco da Gama, first set foot in South Africa.The date of this event was recorded as 7 November, 1497. [5] [6] The bay was named Bahia de Santa Helena (Portuguese for its current name) after Saint Helena a devout, influential Christian and mother of Constantine I. [5]
Port Owen is a man-made marina in Velddrif, South Africa. Velddrif, which has incorporated the village of Laaiplek has the lowest crime statistics in South Africa according to the local police station. It comprises 100 hectares and has 3.5 km of waterways which were produced over 15 years of dredging to remove roughly a million tons of dredge.
Velddrif is located approximately 145 kilometres (90 mi) north of Cape Town to which it is connected by the R27 road. [3] The R27 joins the R399 at Velddrif, which is near the point at which the meandering Berg River flows into the sea at St. Helena Bay.
The MPA is part of the Rocherpan Nature Reserve Complex (RNRC) which was proclaimed in 1988 under the Sea Fisheries Act. It was not mentioned in the Marine Living Resources Act, or listed with other MPAs in the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Marine Recreational Activity Brochure of 2017/2018, but is assumed to be registered as an MPA under Sub-section 82(4) of the MLRA and ...
The cargo vessel MV Helena, under AW Shipping Management, takes a limited number of passengers [121] between Cape Town and St Helena and Ascension on its voyages. [122] Following the retirement of the RMS St Helena in 2018, the South African airline Airlink has operated an inter-island air service between St Helena and Ascension once a month ...
The written history of the Cape Colony in what is now South Africa began when Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias became the first modern European to round the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. [1] In 1497, Vasco da Gama sailed along the whole coast of South Africa on his way to India, landed at St Helena Bay for 8 days, and made a detailed ...
St Helena island. Saint Helena is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, about midway between South America and Africa.St Helena has a land area of 122 square kilometres and is part of the territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which includes Ascension Island and the island group of Tristan da Cunha.
Vredenburg (locally / ˈ f r ɪər d ən b ɜːr ɡ /; [2] Afrikaans: [ˈfriədənbœrχ]) is a town of the Cape West Coast in the Western Cape province of South Africa. "Vrede" is Afrikaans for peace. It is the transportation and commercial hub of the West Coast area and administrative centre of the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality.