Nursery Buttress
Nursery Buttress is a promontory in Western Cape, South Africa and has an elevation of 724 metres. Nursery Buttress is situated nearby to the locality Wynberg, as well as near Shoebury Heights.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Woodhead Dam and Waterworks Museum.
Woodhead Dam
Reservoir
Photo: Andrew massyn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Woodhead Dam is a dam on Table Mountain, Western Cape, South Africa. It was built in 1897 and supplies water to Cape Town. The dam, which was the first large masonry dam in South Africa, was designated as an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2008.
Waterworks Museum
Museum
Photo: Zaian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Waterworks Museum is located on the northern side of Table Mountain, between the Woodhead and Hely-Hutchinson Reservoirs, in Cape Town, South Africa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newlands and Bakoven.
Newlands
Suburb
Photo: Andresdewet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newlands is an upmarket suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It is located at the foot of Table Mountain in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, and is the wettest suburb in South Africa due to its high winter rainfall. Newlands is situated 4 km east of Nursery Buttress.
Bakoven
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bakoven is a small residential suburb on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula, in the southwest of Camps Bay. It is positioned between Victoria Road and the sea. Bakoven is situated 4 km northwest of Nursery Buttress.
Camps Bay
Photo: Octagon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Camps Bay is a suburb in Cape Town on the Cape Peninsula of South Africa. Founded as Kamps Baai it was once considered to become Cape Town's harbour. It has become a tourism hot spot because it offers a great combination of restaurants, bars, amenities, accommodation and a fantastic beach, all very close to each other.
Nursery Buttress
- Type: Promontory with an elevation of 724 metres
- Category: landform
- Location: Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.98333° or 33° 59′ southLongitude
18.41667° or 18° 25′ eastElevation
724 metres (2,375 feet)Open location code
4FRW2C88+MMGeoNames ID
3363518
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Localities in the Area
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