The Great Natural Lanscape View @ Table Mountain National Park, Cape Town, South Africa

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“The Cape Peninsula (is a generally rocky peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean at the south-western extremity of the African continent. At the southern end of the peninsula are Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope. On the northern end is Table Mountain, overlooking Cape Town, South Africa. The peninsula is 52 km long from Mouille point in the north to Cape Point in the south.” (1)

“Table Mountain National Park, previously known as the Cape Peninsula National Park, is a national park in Cape Town,South Africa, proclaimed on 29 May 1998, for the purpose of protecting the natural environment of the Table Mountain Chain, and in particular the rare fynbos vegetation. The park is managed by South African National Parks. The property is included as part of the UNESCO Cape Floral Region World Heritage Site.” (2)

“Boulders Beach is a sheltered beach made up of inlets between granite boulders, from which the name originated. It is located in the Cape Peninsula, near Simon’s Town towards Cape Point, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is also commonly known as Boulders Bay. It is a popular tourist stop because of a colony of African penguins which settled there in 1982. Boulders Beach forms part of the Table Mountain National Park.”(3)

“Cape Point is a promontory at the southeast corner of the Cape Peninsula, which is a mountainous and scenic landform that runs north-south for about thirty kilometres at the extreme southwestern tip of the African continent in the Republic of South Africa. The higher peak above cape point has the old lighthouse on the top which could be seen ‘too early’ by ships rounding the point towards the east, causing them to approach too closely.” (4)

[1] – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Peninsula

[2] -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_Mountain_National_Park

[3]-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulders_Beach

[4] -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Point

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