Gordon’s Bay
Gordon's Bay is a suburb of greater Cape Town, and on the east side of the Strand. it is situated between False Bay and the foot of the Hottentots Holland mountain range.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include South African Naval College and Harmony Flats Nature Reserve.
South African Naval College
College
Photo: Mario Micklisch, CC BY 2.0.
The South African Naval College provides naval officer training to the South African Navy and is one of three officer training institutions within the South African National Defence Force, the equivalent of the Air Force Gymnasium and the Army Gymnasium…
Harmony Flats Nature Reserve
Heath
Photo: Abu Shawka, CC0.
Harmony Flats Nature Reserve is a 9-hectare piece of protected land, located between Strand and Gordon's Bay, South Africa. It protects a surviving fragment of critically endangered Lourensford Alluvium Fynbos vegetation.
Steenbras Power Station
Power station
Photo: Tadpolefarm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Steenbras Power Station, also Steenbras Hydro Pump Station, is a 180 MW pumped-storage hydroelectric power station commissioned in 1979 in South Africa. Steenbras Power Station is situated 3 km east of Gordon’s Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lwandle and Nomzamo.
Lwandle
Suburb
Lwandle is a township in Strand, a town in the eastern part of the Cape Town Metro in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Administratively it is a suburb of the City of Cape Town. Lwandle is situated 4 km north of Gordon’s Bay.
Nomzamo
Suburb
Lwandle/Nomzamo is a small township in the Helderberg basin just outside Strand in the Western Cape of South Africa. Both names are sometimes used interchangeably referring to both places. Nomzamo is situated 5 km north of Gordon’s Bay.
Gordon’s Bay
- Type: Bay
- Also known as: “Gordons-Baai”
- Category: body of water
- Location: Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-34.15881° or 34° 9′ 32″ southLongitude
18.86476° or 18° 51′ 53″ eastElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
4FQWRVR7+FWGeoNames ID
3367560
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