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The Agulhas Bank (/ ə ˈ ɡ ʌ l ə s /, from Portuguese for Cape Agulhas, Cabo das Agulhas, "Cape of Needles") [1] is a broad, shallow part of the southern African continental shelf which extends up to 250 km (160 mi) south of Cape Agulhas before falling steeply to the abyssal plain.
The MPA is an inshore region in the depth range of 0 to 150 m between the Spoeg River and Island Point, partly adjacent to the Namaqua National Park.The protected area includes the water column, the seabed and the subsoil inside the boundaries. [3]
The towns and villages of the Cape Peninsula and Cape Flats, and the undeveloped land of the rest of the peninsula now form part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. The Cape Peninsula is bounded to the north by Table Bay, to the west by the open Atlantic Ocean, and to the east by False Bay in the south and the Cape Flats in the ...
Stilbaai Marine Protected Area – Marine conservation area in the Western Cape in South Africa, (2008), [6] 20 km 2 (7.7 sq mi) Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area – Marine conservation area around the Cape Peninsula in South Africa, (2004), [6] 953.25 km 2 (368.05 sq mi)
The Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area is an inshore marine protected area around the Cape Peninsula, in the vicinity of Cape Town, South Africa.It was proclaimed in Government Gazette No. 26431 of 4 June 2004 in terms of the Marine Living Resources Act, 18 of 1998.
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The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) is a voluntary non-profit organisation in South Africa tasked with saving lives through drowning prevention. It operates 49 bases (as of November 2023) comprising coastal stations, inland stations on dams, auxiliary stations and lifeguard units.
Water shortages demanded that Cape Town, which had until then relied on water supplies from Table Mountain, find a source of water from outside the Cape Peninsula. The two leading candidates were the Wemmershoek catchment and the Steenbras catchment in the Hottentots Holland mountains.