Mossel Bay
Mossel Bay is a harbour town of about 170,000 people on the Garden Route of South Africa. It is an important tourism and farming region of the Western Cape Province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dellex, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: landagent, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Post Office Tree and Cape St. Blaize Lighthouse.
Post Office Tree
Photo: Lugerda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Post Office Tree is a famous milkwood tree in Mossel Bay, South Africa that was used by early Portuguese explorers as a post office. It is located in the grounds of the Bartholomeu Dias Museum Complex in Market Street.
Cape St. Blaize Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Russell James Smith, CC BY 2.0.
Cape St. Blaize Lighthouse is a lighthouse near Mossel Bay, South Africa.
Bartolomeu Dias Museum Complex
Museum
Photo: Buonasera, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bartolomeu Dias Museum Complex is the second biggest provincial museum affiliated to the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport in South Africa. It is located at Mossel Bay.
Mossel Bay
- Type: Town with 60,000 residents
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Mossel Bay, Garden Route District Municipality, Garden Route, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-34.1832° or 34° 10′ 60″ southLongitude
22.1536° or 22° 9′ 13″ eastPopulation
60,000Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)IATA airport code
MZYUnited Nations Location Code
ZA MZYOpen location code
4GQ4R583+PFOpenStreetMap ID
node 2504777790OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
973709Wikidata ID
Q995615
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mossel Bay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Aliwal-Suid”
- Afrikaans: “Mossel Bay”
- Afrikaans: “Mosselbaai”
- Arabic: “خليج موسيل”
- Armenian: “Մոսսել Բեյ”
- Asturian: “Mossel Bay”
- Bulgarian: “Моссел Бай”
- Bulgarian: “Мосъл Бей”
- Cebuano: “Mossel Bay (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Mossel Bay”
- Chinese: “莫塞尔贝”
- Chinese: “莫塞爾灣”
- Chinese: “莫塞爾貝”
- Czech: “Mossel Bay”
- Danish: “Mossel Bay”
- Dutch: “Mosselbaai”
- Dutch: “Mosselbay”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خليج موسيل”
- Esperanto: “Mossel Bay”
- Estonian: “Mossel Bay”
- French: “Mossel Bay”
- German: “Aliwal South”
- German: “Mossel Bay”
- German: “Mosselbaai”
- Hebrew: “מוסל ביי”
- Hungarian: “Mossel Bay”
- Indonesian: “Teluk Mossel”
- Italian: “Mossel Bay”
- Italian: “Mosselbaai”
- Italian: “Mosselbaii”
- Japanese: “モーセル・ベイ”
- Japanese: “モーセルベイ”
- Japanese: “モッセル・ベイ港”
- Japanese: “モッセル湾”
- Latin: “Mossel Bay”
- Latin: “Sinus Mitilorum”
- Macedonian: “Мосел беј”
- Macedonian: “Моселбај”
- Malagasy: “Mossel Bay”
- Marathi: “मॉसेल बे”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mossel Bay”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mossel Flēot”
- Pedi: “Mossel Bay”
- Polish: “Mossel Bay”
- Portuguese: “Mossel Bay”
- Romanian: “Mosselbaai”
- Russian: “Mosselbaai”
- Russian: “Моссел бай”
- Russian: “Моссел Бей”
- Russian: “Моссел Бэй”
- Russian: “Моссел-Бей”
- Russian: “Моссел”
- Russian: “Мосселбай”
- Slovak: “Mossel Bay”
- Slovenian: “Mossel Bay”
- Spanish: “Mosselbaai”
- Swahili: “Mossel Bay”
- Swedish: “Mossel Bay”
- Turkish: “Mossel Bay”
- Ukrainian: “Бей-В’ю”
- Ukrainian: “Боплаас”
- Ukrainian: “Гейдеранд”
- Ukrainian: “Де-Нова”
- Ukrainian: “Деллвілле-Парк”
- Ukrainian: “Ді-Бакке”
- Ukrainian: “Ді-Воор-Бааі”
- Ukrainian: “Ісазане”
- Ukrainian: “Ісінйока”
- Ukrainian: “КваНокутула”
- Ukrainian: “Кванонкваба”
- Ukrainian: “Лінксайд”
- Ukrainian: “Моссел-Бей”
- Ukrainian: “Ну-Давн”
- Ukrainian: “Нью-Горізонс”
- Ukrainian: “Фаірв’ю”
- Urdu: “موسل بے”
- Zulu: “IMossel Bay”
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