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Kasimedu. Kasimedu is a hamlet in the neighbourhood of Royapuram, in Chennai district of Tamil Nadu state in the peninsular India. This hamlet is occupied by fishermen whose families depend on the fishing harbour and the fish market nearby. It stretches for about 2 km, near Ennore fishing harbour along the shore, north of Chennai Port. [1]
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. The north side of the bay is the low-lying ...
Bivalves in South Africa include: Nuculidae. Nucula nucleus Linnaeus, 1758 [1] Mytilidae – Mussels. Perna perna. Estuarine mussel Arcuatula capensis (Cape Agulhas to Mozambique) [2] Ribbed mussel Aulacomya ater (Namibia to Eastern Cape) [2][3] Brack-water mussel Brachidontes virgiliae (Eastern Cape to Mozambique) [2]
Fish Hoek Valley. Coordinates: 34°7′30″S 18°23′45″E. The Fish Hoek Valley is situated in the Cape Peninsula, eighteen miles south of Cape Town, South Africa. It takes its name from the town of Fish Hoek on the False Bay coast. The valley is bound by mountains (including Chapman's Peak, Spitskop, Silvermine Mountain, and Ridge Peak) on ...
Astronaut photo of Cape Town showing the Cape Peninsula, and surrounding waters, including False Bay. Map showing approximate extent of the range of the article and identifying key locations and the borders of the Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area Marine ecoregions of the South African exclusive economic zone Marine species distribution reference map of the Southern African ...
Silvermine Nature Reserve forms part of the Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa. It covers the section of the Cape Peninsula mountain range from the Kalk Bay mountains through to Constantiaberg. The area is a significant conservation area for the indigenous fynbos vegetation, which is of the montane cone-bush type at this ...
Paternoster (pronounced / ˌpɑːtɜːrˈnɒstɜːr /) is one of the oldest fishing villages on the West Coast of South Africa. It is situated 15 km north-west of Vredenburg [2] and 145 km north of Cape Town, at Cape Columbine between Saldanha Bay and St Helena Bay. The town covers an area of 194.8 hectare and has approximately 1883 inhabitants.
Fish Hoek. The view of Fish Hoek Bay from Elsie's Peak towards Clovelly. Fish Hoek (Afrikaans: Vishoek, meaning either Fish Corner or Fish Glen) is a coastal suburb of Cape Town at the eastern end of the Fish Hoek Valley on the False Bay side of the Cape Peninsula in the Western Cape, South Africa. Previously a separate municipality, Fish Hoek ...