Gordon’s Bay

Gordon's Bay is a suburb of greater Cape Town, and on the east side of the . it is situated between False Bay and the foot of the Hottentots Holland mountain range.
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  • 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.

College
The 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…

Heath
Photo: Abu Shawka, CC0.
is a 9-hectare piece of protected land, located between and Gordon's Bay, . It protects a surviving fragment of critically endangered Lourensford Alluvium Fynbos vegetation.

Power station
The , also Steenbras Hydro Pump Station, is a 180 MW pumped-storage hydroelectric power station commissioned in 1979 in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lwandle.

Suburb
is a township in , a town in the eastern part of the Metro in the province of . Administratively it is a suburb of the City of Cape Town. is situated 4½ km north of Gordon’s Bay.

Gordon’s Bay

Latitude
-34.1611° or 34° 9′ 40″ south
Longitude
18.8687° or 18° 52′ 7″ east
Population
3,000
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ZA GBY
Open location code
4FQWRVQ9+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29382467
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
3367559
Wiki­data 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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