Observatory
Observatory is a suburb in Cape Town, South Africa, colloquially known as Obs. Bordered by Mowbray to the south and Salt River to the northwest, the area is best known as a student neighbourhood associated with the nearby University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital.- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Cape Town, South Africa
- Also known as: “Observatory, Cape Town”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Groote Schuur Hospital and Observatory railway station.
Groote Schuur Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Danie van der Merwe, CC BY 2.0.
Groote Schuur Hospital is a public teaching hospital situated on the slopes of Devil's Peak in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. It was founded in 1938 and is famous for being the institution where the first human-to-human heart transplant took place on the 3rd December 1967, conducted by surgeon Christiaan Barnard on the patient Louis Washkansky.
Observatory railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rotsee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Observatory railway station is a Metrorail station serving the suburb of Observatory in Cape Town. It is served by trains on the Southern Line. The station is located under the Station Road bridge.
AFDA
College
AFDA is a South African private tertiary education institution that offers higher certificates, undergraduate degrees, and postgraduate degrees in film, television, performance, business innovation, technology, radio and podcasting, and creative writing.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salt River and Mowbray.
Salt River
Suburb
Salt River is a suburb of Cape Town, located near Table Bay, to the east of Cape Town CBD. The area is noted for its association with the clothing and textiles industry. The name Salt River is a translation of the Dutch "Soutrivier".
Mowbray
Suburb
Photo: Zaian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mowbray is one of the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa and lies on the slopes of Devil's Peak. Mowbray is at a junction of several major Cape Town freeways and has an important multi-modal public transport interchange at Mowbray railway station.
Rosebank
Suburb
Photo: Rotsee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rosebank is one of the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa, located between the suburbs of Mowbray and Rondebosch.
Observatory
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.93694° or 33° 56′ 13″ southLongitude
18.46833° or 18° 28′ 6″ eastElevation
21 metres (69 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA OBSOpen location code
4FRW3F79+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 25685777OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
3363444Wikidata ID
Q3025268
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Observatory” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Observatory”
- Bulgarian: “Обсерваторй”
- Cebuano: “Observatory”
- Chinese: “天文台”
- Chinese: “天文臺”
- Dutch: “Observatory”
- French: “Observatory”
- German: “Observatory (Kapstadt)”
- German: “Observatory”
- Italian: “Observatory”
- Japanese: “オブザバトリー”
- Japanese: “ケープ天文台”
- Pedi: “Observatory”
- Russian: “Обсерватория”
- Turkish: “Observatory”
- Xhosa: “Observatory”
- Zulu: “Observatory”
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Notable Places Nearby
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