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The south coast comprises a warm temperate component from Mbashe to Cape Agulhas, and a large overlap zone between Cape Agulhas and Cape Point where waters of the two currents mix. The continental shelf is at its widest in this region, extending up to 240km offshore on the Agulhas Bank .
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 ...
Both the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point offer spectacular scenery; the whole of the southernmost portion of the Cape Peninsula is a wild, rugged, scenic and generally unspoiled national park. The term "the Cape" has also been used in a wider sense, to indicate the area of the European colony centered on Cape Town, [ 37 ] and the later South ...
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.
Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area – Marine conservation area around the Cape Peninsula in South Africa (Western Cape, 2004) [28] Castle Rock Marine Protected Area, previously known as the Millers Point Marine Reserve , now part of Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area (Western Cape, 2000) [ 28 ]
Turning unused cranberry bogs into wetland is good for Cape Cod's water quality. Besides restoring the Cape's wild ecosystems and improving resiliency in the face of climate change, restored ...
The Benguela Current is the broad, northward flowing ocean current that forms the eastern portion of the South Atlantic Ocean gyre. The current extends from roughly Cape Point in the south, to the position of the Angola-Benguela front in the north, at around 16°S. The current is driven by the prevailing south easterly trade winds.
Marine bioregions of the South African Exclusive Economic Zone: Cape Canyon Marine Protected Area is in the South-western Cape bioregion. (describe position, biodiversity and endemism of the region) The MPA is in the cool temperate South-western Cape inshore marine bioregion to the west of Cape Point which extends northwards wards to the Cape Columbine.