Strand
Strand is a railway station in City of Cape Town, Western Cape. Strand is situated nearby to the nature reserve Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary, as well as near the suburb Nomzamo.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary and Strand High School.
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.
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 1½ km northeast of Strand.
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 3½ km southeast of Strand.
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 Strand.
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 Strand.
Strand
- Type: Railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-34.1149° or 34° 6′ 54″ southLongitude
18.83238° or 18° 49′ 57″ eastNetwork
Metrorail Western CapeOpen location code
4FQWVRPJ+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 7401297956OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationWikidata ID
Q124395855
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to French—“Strand” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Strand”
- French: “gare de Strand”
- French: “Strand”
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