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Western Cape: North of the Du Toitskloof Range. Part of the Cape Fold Belt System Hex River Mountains: Witch River Mountains: Western Cape: Part of the Cape Fold Belt system Hottentots-Holland (Hottentot: old name for Khoi aboriginal inhabitants) Western Cape: 1,590 m (5,220 ft) Part of the Cape Fold Belt system Kammanassieberge: Kammanassie ...
The Cape Fold Mountains form a series of parallel ranges that run along the south-western and southern coastlines of South Africa for 850 km from the Cederberg 200 km to the north of the Cape Peninsula, and then along the south coast as far as Port Elizabeth, 650 km to the east (see the two maps one above the other on the right).
Dassen Island: Western Cape South of Saldanha Bay west of Yzerfontein: 273 hectares (670 acres) Duiker Island: Western Cape near Hout Bay: 0.4 hectares (0.99 acres) Dyer Island: Western Cape near Gans Bay: 30 hectares (74 acres)
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 ...
Table Mountain is the northernmost end of a 50-kilometre-long (30 mi) and roughly six-to-ten-kilometre-wide (4 to 6 mi) Cape Fold Mountain range that forms the backbone of the Cape Peninsula, stretching from the Cape of Good Hope in the south to Table Mountain and its flanking Devil's Peak (to the east) and Lion's Head and Signal Hill (to the ...
Mountain ranges of the Western Cape province of South Africa. Pages in category "Mountain ranges of the Western Cape" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
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 that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean at the south-western extremity of the continent. At its tip is Cape Point and the Cape of ...
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 ...