Harvest Capella

The dive site Harvest Capella or MFV Harvest Capella is an inshore recent wreck in the Karbonkelberg area on the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.

Photo: Pbsouthwood, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: Tourist attraction
Description: inshore recent wreck dive site at Oude Schip headland on the Cape Peninsula west coast
Also known as: “Harvest Capella Shipwreck” and “MFV Harvest Capella”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include SS Oakburn and MV Bos 400 and Karbonkelberg.

SS Oakburn and MV Bos 400

Photo: Pbsouthwood, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The dive site Oakburn and Bos 400 is a 1994 wreck overlapping a historical wreck, on a shoreline rocky reef in the Karbonkelberg headland area on the Atlantic seaboard of the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. SS Oakburn and MV Bos 400 is situated 1¼ km south of Harvest Capella.

Karbonkelberg

Peak

Photo: michael clarke stuff, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Karbonkelberg is a small peak forming part of the Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa.

Duiker Island

Islet

Photo: Bdell555, Public domain.

Duiker Island or Duikereiland, also known as Seal Island, is an island off Hout Bay near Cape Town South Africa. It is 77 by 95 metres in size, with an area of about 0.4 hectare. Duiker Island is situated 3½ km south of Harvest Capella.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Llandudno and Hout Bay.

Llandudno

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Llandudno is a residential suburb of Cape Town on the Atlantic Seaboard of the Western Cape. There are no shops or commercial activities, but the town has some of the most expensive residential property in South Africa.

Hout Bay

Photo: Harvey Barrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hout Bay appears to be a little harbour village but is actually a suburb of the South African metropole Cape Town.

Bakoven

Suburb

Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bakoven is a small residential suburb in the Atlantic Seaboard region of Cape Town, South Africa. It is positioned between Victoria Road and the sea. South of Bakoven and Camps Bay the coastline is protected, with thousands of acres of mountain Nature Reserve. Bakoven is situated 10 km northeast of Harvest Capella.

Harvest Capella

Categories: recreational dive site, inshore dive site, shipwreck, tourism, historic site, and disaster remains
Location: Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude

-34.02745° or 34° 1′ 39″ south

Longitude

18.31248° or 18° 18′ 45″ east

Open location code

4FQWX8F6+2X

OpenStreetMap ID

node 453030856

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=wreck

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

Wikidata ID

Q41771616

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Highlights include Oude Skip and Shortys cave.

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