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 |
Photo: Casperinfo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Suburb with 3,000 residents
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Fishhoek”
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lwandle.
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 4½ km north of Gordon’s Bay.
Gordon’s Bay
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-34.1611° or 34° 9′ 40″ southLongitude
18.8687° or 18° 52′ 7″ eastPopulation
3,000Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)Named after
Robert Jacob GordonUnited Nations Location Code
ZA GBYOpen location code
4FQWRVQ9+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 29382467OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
3367559Wikidata ID
Q2613726
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gordon’s Bay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gordonsbaai”
- Cebuano: “Gordon’s Bay”
- Dutch: “Gordonsbaai”
- French: “Gordon’s Bay”
- French: “Gordons Bay”
- Hebrew: “גורדונ’ס ביי”
- Pedi: “Gordon’s Bay”
- Romanian: “Gordonsbaai”
- Russian: “Гордонс-Бей”
- Turkish: “Gordon’s Bay”
- Xhosa: “Gordon’s Bay”
- Zulu: “Gordon’s Bay”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Gordon’s Bay”. Photo: Casperinfo, CC BY-SA 3.0.