Wilderness
Wilderness is a coastal village situated in the Western Cape province in South Africa. It is set between the Kaaimans River and the Goukama Nature Reserve in the heart of the Garden Route, bordered by the Outeniqua Mountains and swept by the Indian Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Wilderness, South Africa”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wilderness National Park.
Wilderness National Park
Photo: Bernard DUPONT, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wilderness National Park, also called the Wilderness Section, is located around the seaside town of Wilderness between the larger towns of George and Knysna, in the Western Cape.
Wilderness
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: George Local Municipality, Garden Route District Municipality, Garden Route, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.9932° or 33° 59′ 36″ southLongitude
22.5786° or 22° 34′ 43″ eastElevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open location code
4GR42H4H+PFOpenStreetMap ID
node 26308367OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wilderness” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wilderness”
- Afrikaans: “Wildernis, Wes-Kaap”
- Afrikaans: “Wildernis”
- Asturian: “Wilderness”
- Chinese: “韋爾德尼斯”
- Danish: “Wilderness”
- Dutch: “Wildernis”
- Estonian: “Wilderness”
- French: “Wilderness”
- German: “Wilderness”
- German: “Wildernis”
- Hebrew: “וילדרנס”
- Hungarian: “Wilderness”
- Italian: “Wilderness”
- Japanese: “ワイルダーネス”
- Japanese: “西ケープ州”
- Pedi: “Wilderness, Kapa Bodikela”
- Pedi: “Wilderness”
- Persian: “وایلدرنس، کیپ غربی”
- Polish: “Wilderness”
- Romanian: “Wilderness”
- Russian: “Уилдернесс”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Wildernis”
- Slovenian: “Wilderness”
- Ukrainian: “Клеінкрантз”
- Western Frisian: “Wildernis”
- Zulu: “IWilderness, INtshonalanga Kapa”
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Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Wilderness”. Photo: Andresdewet, CC BY-SA 3.0.