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It is located on the Cape Peninsula, in Simon's Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is also commonly known as Boulders Bay. [1] It is a popular tourist spot because of a colony of African penguins which settled there in 1982. Boulders Beach forms part of the Table Mountain National Park.
The collapse of sardine stocks in Namibia during the 1960s and 1970s had profound consequences for several seabird species, including Cape gannets and African penguins. Similarly, shifts in sardine distribution and depletion of stocks along the West Coast of South Africa have negatively impacted breeding populations in colonies such as Lambert ...
The African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), also known as Cape penguin or South African penguin, is a species of penguin confined to southern African waters. Like all penguins, it is flightless, with a streamlined body and wings stiffened and flattened into flippers for a marine habitat. Adults weigh an average of 2.2–3.5 kg (4.9–7.7 lb) and ...
The Two Oceans Aquarium is an aquarium located at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.The aquarium was opened on the 13 November 1995 and comprises several exhibition galleries with large viewing windows: [3] The aquarium is named for its location, where the Indian and Atlantic Ocean meet.
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 .
The population's modern history peaked in 1993, when 63,000 penguins lived there. [2] The population is in decline, following the national and species' trend despite the best efforts of conservation group SANCCOB. [3] In 2019, the penguins of St. Croix island were impacted by an oil spill at the Port of Ngqura. [4]
سبع دول، محيط، وأكثر من ألف ميل بينهم وبين أحلامهم لمستقبل أفضل.
The Cape Metropole (greater Cape Town) has a wide variety of beaches divided into three regions by the Cape Peninsula: False Bay, including the long sandy beach running from Gordon's Bay to Muizenberg, and the smaller beaches along the East side of the Cape Peninsula; Atlantic Seaboard, along the West (Atlantic) side of the Cape Peninsula