Galileo Heights
Galileo Heights is a residential area in City of Cape Town, Western Cape which is located on George Street. Galileo Heights is situated nearby to Old Strand Cemetery, as well as near the shopping center Southside Centre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Harmony Flats Nature Reserve and Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary.
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. Harmony Flats Nature Reserve is situated 3 km southeast of Galileo Heights.
Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary
Nature reserve
Photo: Abu Shawka, CC0.
Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary is a 10 hectares reserve in Strand, South Africa. This isolated bird sanctuary is located near the estuary of the Lourens River. Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary is situated 3 km north of Galileo Heights.
Strand High School
School
Hoërskool Strand is an Afrikaans high school located in Strand, South Africa. 1 089 students attend the school, mostly residents of Strand, although students from as far as Gordon's Bay, Somerset West, and even Grabouw attend the school. Strand High School is situated 2½ km north of Galileo Heights.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Strand and Nomzamo.
Strand
Photo: Casperinfo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Strand is a far western suburb of Cape Town on the north coast of False Bay, just south of Somerset West and just west 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 2½ km east of Galileo Heights.
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 3½ km east of Galileo Heights.
Galileo Heights
- Type: Residential area
- Address: 8 George Street, STRAND, 7140
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-34.1223° or 34° 7′ 20″ southLongitude
18.83312° or 18° 49′ 59″ eastOpen location code
4FQWVRHM+36OpenStreetMap ID
node 12105859440OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residential
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