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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. [ 12 ] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [ 13 ] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality.
The Cape of Good Hope (Afrikaans: Kaap die Goeie Hoop [ˌkɑːp di ˌχujə ˈɦuəp]) [a] is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, based on the misbelief that the Cape was the dividing point between the Atlantic and ...
Thesens Island: Western Cape, Knysna: 70 hectares (170 acres) Marion Island: Western Cape More than 1750 km southeast of Port Elizabeth: 29,000 hectares (72,000 acres) Msikaba Island: Eastern Cape north of Port Grosvenor
The IHO limits of the Atlantic Ocean. This is a list of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the largest of which is Greenland.Note that the definition of the ocean used by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) excludes the seas, gulfs, bays, etc., bordering the ocean itself. [1]
Here the escarpment rises to its greatest height of more than 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). The Great Escarpment is a major topographical feature in Africa that consists of steep slopes from the high central Southern African plateau [1] downward in the direction of the oceans that surround southern Africa on three sides. [2][3] While it lies ...
[13] [14] Its territory includes Marion and Prince Edward Islands, nearly 2,000 km (1,243 mi) south of Cape Town in the sub-antarctic Indian Ocean. The cold Benguela current is a mineral-rich upwelling current, which flows away to the north along the western coastline, after having come up from the cold depths of the Atlantic Ocean .
Cabot Strait, about 56 miles wide, is the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence between Cape Ray, Newfoundland, and Cape North, the NE point of Cape Breton Island. [ 29 ] Strait of Canso [ 30 ] is located between Cape Breton Island and mainland Nova Scotia , it originally served as an outlet 1.0 km (0.6 mi) wide and 60 m (200 ft) deep at its ...
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. The Cape Peninsula is a rocky and mountainous peninsula ...