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Gordon's Bay ( Afrikaans: Gordonsbaai) is a harbour town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is included in the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality Eastern Suburbs region (formerly called Helderberg Basin). [2] It is situated on the shores of Gordon's Bay in the northeastern corner of False Bay about 58 km from Cape Town to ...
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 ...
1. Bird Island. Eastern Cape near Port Elizabeth. 19 hectares (47 acres) 33°50′S 26°17′E. / 33.833°S 26.283°E / -33.833; 26.283. now part of the Addo Elephant National Park. 2. Stag Island.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Spark's Bay: Western Cape: south of Gordon's Bay ... List of islands of South Africa;
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English: Gordon's Bay is the smallest of three towns in the Helderberg region, so named after the Helderberg Mountain which is part of the Hottentots-Holland Mountains which dwarf the locality on two sides. Gordon's Bay was originally named "Fish Hoek", many years before the town of the same name, located on the western side of False Bay, was ...
The Prince Edward Islands are two small uninhabited islands in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean that are administered by South Africa. They are named Marion Island (named after Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, 1724–1772) and Prince Edward Island (named after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, 1767–1820). The islands in the group have ...
Gordon's Bay (Afrikaans: Gordonsbaai) is a harbour town in the Helderberg region, on the shores of Gordon's Bay in the northeastern corner of False Bay about 58 km from the Cape Town city centre, to the south of the N2 national road and is named after Robert Jacob Gordon (1743–1795), the Dutch explorer of Scottish descent.