Fish Hoek
Fish Hoek is a picturesque town situated about halfway down the Cape Peninsula, between Cape Town and Simon's Town. It is well known for its beach, which gets jam-packed on sunny days.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Derek Keats, CC BY 2.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Fish Hoek and Kalk Bay.
Fish Hoek
Railway station
Photo: Lantus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fish Hoek railway station is a railway station in Fish Hoek, Cape Town, South Africa. The station opened on 1 December 1890 as the first station on the extension from Kalk Bay to Simon's Town, the present-day terminus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kalk Bay and Glencairn.
Kalk Bay
Photo: Ken and Nyetta, CC BY 2.0.
Kalk Bay is a small fishing harbour along the east coast of the Cape Peninsula to the south of Cape Town. It has become a very hip and trendy place, with a fine selection of restaurants, coffee shops and bistros, and a number of eclectic, alternative shops along the Main Road on either side of the train station.
Glencairn
Suburb
Photo: Derek Keats, CC BY 2.0.
Glencairn is a small seaside village located on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. It is situated about 4 km north of Simonstown, on the shore of False Bay.
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.
Fish Hoek
- Type: Locality
- Description: suburb of Cape Town, South Africa
- Category: neighborhood
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Fish Hoek” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vishoek”
- Cebuano: “Fish Hoek”
- Chinese: “釣魚鎮”
- Dutch: “Fish Hoek”
- Dutch: “Vishoek”
- French: “Fish Hoek”
- German: “Fish Hoek”
- Italian: “Fish Hoek”
- Marathi: “फिशहोक”
- Pedi: “Fish Hoek”
- Romanian: “Vishoek”
- Russian: “Фисхук”
- Spanish: “Fish Hoek”
- Tamil: “பிஷ் ஓயிக்”
- Turkish: “Fish Hoek”
- Ukrainian: “Фісхук”
- Ukrainian: “Фіш-Гук”
- Ukrainian: “Фішгук”
- Xhosa: “Fish Hoek”
- Zulu: “Fish Hoek”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Fish Hoek”. Photo: nairnbairn, CC BY-SA 2.0.