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The V&A Waterfront is a mixed-use destination located in the oldest working harbour in the Southern Hemisphere. [1] With Table Mountain as its backdrop, [2] the 123-hectare neighbourhood is located within the Cape Town, South Africa, where millions of people visit each year. [3]
Wolraad Woltemade (c.1708 – 1 June 1773) was a Cape Dutch dairy farmer, who died while rescuing sailors from the wreck of the ship De Jonge Thomas in Table Bay on 1 June 1773. [ 1] The story was reported by the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg [ 2] who was in South Africa as a surgeon for the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (known in ...
Cape Town[ a] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [ 11] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [ 12] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality .
16. The longest walking road is from Cape Town, South Africa, to Magadan, Russia, and is 14,334 miles long. 17. Due to plate tectonics, Alaska moves almost three inches closer to Alaska each year. 18.
Robben Island ( Afrikaans: Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, north of Cape Town, South Africa. It takes its name from the Dutch word for seals ( robben ), hence the Dutch/Afrikaans name Robbeneiland, which translates to Seal (s) Island . Robben Island is roughly oval in shape ...
The Parktown prawn, African king cricket or tusked king cricket ( Libanasidus vittatus) is a species of king cricket endemic to Southern Africa. It is unrelated to prawns, Libanasidus being insects in the order Orthoptera – crickets, locusts and similar insects. The king crickets are not true crickets either: they belong to the family ...
Sources: 1658–1904, [1] 1950–1990, [2] 1996, [3] 2001, and 2011 Census; [4] 2007, [5] 2016 Census estimates. [6] The area known today as Cape Town has no written history before it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias in 1488. The German anthropologist Theophilus Hahn recorded that the original name of the area was ...
Khoisan / ˈkɔɪsɑːn / KOY-sahn, or Khoe-Sān ( pronounced [kxʰoesaːn] ), is a catch-all term for the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who traditionally speak non- Bantu languages, combining the Khoekhoen (formerly "Hottentots") and the Sān peoples (also called "Bushmen"). Khoisan populations traditionally speak click languages and ...