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Cape Coast have two principal hospitals: the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and the Cape Coast Metro Hospital. [51] The Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, popularly known as "Interberton" by the locals, was the first of a series of Regional Hospitals established by the Ministry of Health. Full operations begun on 12 August 1998 and was awarded the ...
Map showing the Cape Peninsula, illustrating the positions of the Cape Town City Centre, Table Mountain, the main mountains and peaks that make up the Peninsula, and the Cape of Good Hope. The courses of the warm Agulhas current (red) along the east coast of South Africa, and the cold Benguela current (blue) along the west coast.
Menelaus navigated via Cape Sounion on his way home from Troy, and Nestor stopped at Cape Geraestus (now Cape Mandelo) on Euboea to give offerings at the altar to Poseidon there. [6] Cape Gelidonya (then known as Chelidonia) on the coast of Turkey served as a bearing aid for ships heading to the Egyptian port of Canopus, directly to the south.
Cape Coast in 1747 Map of Cape Coast Castle (1869) In 1757, during the Seven Years' War, a French naval squadron badly damaged and nearly captured Cape Coast Castle. [12] This event was likely one of the most important reasons to entirely reconstruct the Castle, which was quite notorious for its collapsing walls and leaking roofs. [13]
English: Map of municipal boundaries in the Western Cape, as they are after the municipal elections of 3 August 2016, with the West Coast District Municipality highlighted in red. Based on File:Map of the Western Cape with municipalities blank (2016).svg.
The West Coast is a region of the Western Cape province in South Africa and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and the Swartland region on the east.. The region stretches for over 400 km from north to south and is known for its scenery and fertile fishing grounds.
The Cape of Good Hope (Afrikaans: Kaap die Goeie Hoop [ˌkɑːp di ˌχujə ˈɦuəp]) [a] is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, based on the misbelief that the Cape was the dividing point between the Atlantic and ...
The Western Cape (Xhosa: iNtshona-Koloni; Afrikaans: Wes-Kaap [ˈvɛskɑːp]) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of 129,449 square kilometres (49,981 sq mi), and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020. [8]