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False Bay (Afrikaans: Valsbaai) is a body of water in the Atlantic Ocean between the mountainous Cape Peninsula and the Hottentots Holland Mountains in the extreme south-west of South Africa. The mouth of the bay faces south and is demarcated by Cape Point to the west and Cape Hangklip to the east.
False Bay Park (Afrikaans: Valsbaai-natuurreservaat), a Ramsar site wetland since 2015, is a nature reserve that protects the western shores of the freshwater bay, False Bay, and is situated near the coast of northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. False Bay is connected to Lake St. Lucia and both are included in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park.
The False Bay is an 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) wide south-southeasterly facing bay in South Australia's upper Spencer Gulf region. It extends from the Whyalla steelworks at the southern end to Black Point at the eastern end. It features very wide, low gradient tidal, sand and salt flats which are up to 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) wide.
The sea in False Bay is about 6 degrees warmer than the Atlantic Seaboard and the West Coast. In 2011, Lonely Planet listed Cape Town second in its list of the world's top 10 beach cities. [ 1 ]
This is a list of seas of the World Ocean, including marginal seas, areas of water, various gulfs, bights, bays, and straits. [2] In many cases it is a matter of tradition for a body of water to be named a sea or a bay, etc., therefore all these types are listed here.
False Bay is a bay of the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Town, South Africa. False Bay can also refer to: False Bay (Livingston Island) on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands; False Bay, South Australia, a bay in South Australia; False Bay, South Australia (locality), a locality in South Australia
The locality's name is derived from this bay. The locality was first established in 2010 for a "long established name". [2] [3] False Bay is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Giles and is partly within the local government area of the City of Whyalla and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia.
The Big Five False Bay was an administrative area in the Umkhanyakude District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.. The municipality was named after the Big Five animals (Lion, Elephant, Leopard, Cape Buffalo and Rhino) which are found in the game reserves that are located in the area e.g. the Hluhluwe game reserve, the Mfolozi game reserve and the Khinda game reserve.