Elands Bay
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 18 ′ S , 18 ° 20 ′ E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| Western cape | |||
| District | West coast | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA toilet | ||
| local community | Cederberg | ||
| Residents | 1525 (2011) | ||
| Website | www.elandsbay.co.za (English) | ||
.jpg) Sunset in Elands Bay
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Elands Bay (English; Afrikaans : Elandsbaai ) is a coastal town with 1,525 inhabitants (as of 2011) in the municipality of Cederberg , West Coast District , Western Cape Province in South Africa . It is about 80 kilometers north of Saldanha and 220 kilometers north of Cape Town .
Elands Bay is home to the Bobbejaansberg Tunnel, the only tunnel on the 800-kilometer Sishen – Saldanha railway , which was built to transport ore from the inland.
The name refers to the Eland antelopes that used to live here .
tourism
Elands Bay is known as a surfing area.
Attractions
- Lobster (English: Crayfish , Jasus lalandii ); between Elands Bay and Lamberts Bay there is one of the most productive fishing areas in South Africa
- Rock carvings in the caves of the nearby Bobbejaansberg, which, as well as excavations, prove the settlement for around 15,000 years
- Verlorenvlei ( RAMSAR ), a long wetland area
- Whale watching from August to November
literature
- Antonieta Jerardino, René Navarro: Cape Rock Lobster (Jasus lalandii) Remains from South African West Coast Shell Middens: Preservational Factors and Possible Bias. In: Journal of Archaeological Science. Vol. 29, No. 9, 2002, ISSN 0305-4403 , pp. 993-1000.
Web links
Commons : Elands Bay - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Official website (English)
- Tourism Website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census , accessed November 18, 2013
- ↑ Verlorenvlei ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at ewisa.co.za (English)