Mowbray
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Cape Town, South Africa
- Also known as: “Mowbray, Cape Town”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mowbray railway station and Irma Stern Museum.
Mowbray railway station
Railway station
Mowbray railway station is a Metrorail station on the Southern Line, serving the suburb of Mowbray in Cape Town. The station has three tracks, served by a side platform and an island platform; the station building is at ground level on the western side of the tracks.
Irma Stern Museum
Museum
Photo: Axxter99, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Irma Stern Museum is a South African museum dedicated to the life and work of Irma Stern and the artists associated with her.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosebank and Observatory.
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
Suburb
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.
Salt River
Suburb
Salt River is a suburb of Cape Town, located near Table Bay, to the east of Cape Town's central business district. Salt River is served by a railway station of the same name, and has the postcode 7925.
Mowbray
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.94833° or 33° 56′ 54″ southLongitude
18.47417° or 18° 28′ 27″ eastElevation
21 metres (69 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA MBYOpen location code
4FRW3F2F+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 25685778OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
3363901Wikidata ID
Q6927241
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mowbray” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mowbray, Kaapstad”
- Afrikaans: “Mowbray”
- Cebuano: “Mowbray”
- Dutch: “Mowbray, Cape Town”
- French: “Mowbray (Le Cap)”
- French: “Mowbray”
- German: “Mowbray”
- Pedi: “Mowbray”
- Russian: “Моубрей”
- Turkish: “Mowbray”
- Ukrainian: “Мовбрей”
- Urdu: “موبرے، کیپ ٹاؤن”
- Xhosa: “Mowbray”
- Zulu: “Mowbray”
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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 “Mowbray”. Photo: Zaian, CC BY-SA 3.0.