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Fish Hoek, Vissers Baay or Visch Hoek appears on the earliest maps of the Cape. Diplomat Edmund Roberts visited Fish Hoek in 1833. He described it as a "poor village" with a whaling industry. [2] The first grant of Crown land in Fish Hoek was granted to Andries Bruins in 1818. The land was sold several times before being bought by Hester Sophia ...
Fish Hoek Valley was once rural, but today it is largely covered by suburbs and townships such as Kommetjie, Ocean View, Noordhoek, The Lakes, Masiphumelele, Capri Village, Sunnydale, Sun Valley, Fish Hoek, and Clovelly. Some rural aspects have been preserved in the form of heritage areas and parts of the Table Mountain National Park.
Min-Y-Mor, 62 Simonstown Road, Fish Hoek, Simonstown District Originally formed part of the farm owned by K.S. de Villiers, known as the land baron of the area. He died in 1916 and the property was soon afterwards subdivided into lots to form the township now known as Fish Hoek.
Ou Kaapse Weg (Afrikaans for Old Cape Way), numbered as route M64, is a mountain pass in the Cape Peninsula that connects the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town with the Fish Hoek Valley. It traverses the Steenberg mountains and passes through the Silvermine Nature Reserve .
Fish Hoek bay, (Vishoekbaai), the northernmost minor bay of the west side of False Bay with a sandy beach open to the sea Fish Hoek beach, 34°08.160′S 18°26.148′E / 34.136000°S 18.435800°E / -34.136000; 18.435800 , a sandy beach on the east side of the Fish Hoek–Noordhoek gap, a low-lying break in the mountain range of the ...
The M4 continues southwards with the False Bay coast to its east for 6 kilometres (still named Main Road) to reach Fish Hoek, where it meets the M65 route at a roundabout. The M4 continues following the coast southwards to reach Glencairn, where it meets the southern terminus of the M6 route (an alternative route from the Cape Town CBD).
M4 (Fish Hoek) – M6 – M82 – M82 – M66 – M4 (near Cape Point) Fish Hoek, Risi View, Sun Valley, Sunnydale, Fairie Knowe, Masiphumelele, Heron Park, Imhoff's Gift, Ocean View, Kommetjie, Scarborough: Kommetjie Road, Main Road, Plateau Road M66: Northeast–southwest: M4 (Bayview Heights) – M65 (near Scarborough) Bayview Heights, Redhill
Fish Hoek railway station is a railway station in Fish Hoek, Cape Town, South Africa. The station opened on 1 December 1890 as the first station on the extension from Kalk Bay to Simon's Town, the present-day terminus. It was electrified in 1928. [1] Fish Hoek is served by Southern Line services operated by Metrorail. [2] [3]