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Muizenberg comprises a 150 ha wetland area, including an intermittent shallow lake (Muizenberg) and a smaller pond (Kaya Fortuna). The site lies within the northern suburbs of Willemstad , the capital of Curaçao , a constituent island nation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Dutch Caribbean .
Muizenberg started as a place for holiday homes for the rich after the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in 1886. Muizenberg Municipality was established in 1895. It merged with Kalk Bay in 1897. In 1910 the Muizenberg Carnegie Library [4] opened next to the Natale Labia, and a year later a post office opened. In 1911 the first pavilion, a ...
To prevent this, Craig landed 800 soldiers and Royal Marines on 14 July, [10] who occupied Simon's Town while the Dutch withdrew to the pass at Muizenberg, through which passed the road to Cape Town. [11] For the next month the two armies observed an uneasy truce, broken by occasional patrols and sniping.