Ocean View
Ocean View, Cape Town, was established between 1960 and 1970, as a township for coloured people who had been forcibly removed from the neighbouring so called "white areas", such as Simon's Town, Noordhoek, Fish Hoek, and Glencairn, by the apartheid government under the Group Areas Act of 1950.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: town in South Africa
- Also known as: “Ocean View, Cape Town”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Slangkop Lighthouse.
Slangkop Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Danie van der Merwe, CC BY 2.0.
Slangkop Lighthouse is a lighthouse near the town of Kommetjie, near Cape Town, South Africa. Slangkop Lighthouse is situated 3 km west of Ocean View.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kommetjie and Masiphumelele.
Kommetjie
Photo: Hilton1949, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kommetjie is on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula, south-west of Noordhoek and north of Scarborough. The area is a popular spot for surfing, since powerful waves from the Atlantic Ocean rise up over rocky reefs formed by hard sandstones of the Table Mountain Group.
Masiphumelele
Village
Photo: Beyond Access, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Masiphumelele is a township on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, situated between Kommetjie, Capri Village and Noordhoek. Initially known as Site 5, the township was renamed Masiphumelele by its residents, which is a Xhosa word meaning "let us succeed". Masiphumelele is situated 3 km northeast of Ocean View.
Da Gama Park
Suburb
Da Gama Park is a suburb of the City of Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Da Gama Park was founded as a township in the former Simon's Town district, north-west of the town. Da Gama Park is situated 4½ km east of Ocean View.
Ocean View
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-34.14588° or 34° 8′ 45″ southLongitude
18.35299° or 18° 21′ 11″ eastElevation
43 metres (141 feet)Open location code
4FQWV933+J5OpenStreetMap ID
node 262721789OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Ocean View” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ocean View, Kaapstad”
- Afrikaans: “Ocean View”
- Cebuano: “Ocean View”
- Dutch: “Ocean View”
- French: “Ocean View”
- Pedi: “Ocean View, Cape Town”
- Southern Sotho: “Ocean View, Cape Town”
- Turkish: “Ocean View”
- Xhosa: “Ocean View, Cape Town”
- Zulu: “Ocean View, Cape Town”
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Highlights include St Andrew’s Cath. Church and Ocean View Clinic.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ocean View”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.