Lamberts Bay
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 18 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
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| District | West coast | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA toilet | ||
| local community | Cederberg | ||
| surface | 45.7 km² | ||
| Residents | 6120 (2011) | ||
| density | 133.8 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1913 | ||
 The Bird Island Nature Reserve in Lamberts Bay
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Lamberts Bay , Lambert's Bay ( Afrikaans : Lambertsbaai ) is a town in the municipality of Cederberg , West Coast District , Western Cape Province in South Africa . The small town with 6120 inhabitants (as of 2011) is located on the coast west of Clanwilliam and around 220 kilometers north of Cape Town .
The main sources of income are fishing and tourism. The place is known for the lobsters caught here , which are offered in large open-air restaurants; it is a destination for many Cape Town residents on weekends. A lobster festival takes place annually at the end of November. There are also many water sports and other leisure activities. Also noteworthy is the Bird Island with the Bird Island Nature Reserve . It is located in the harbor and is home to thousands of sea birds.
history
The first settlement by European immigrants took place before 1800. The bay was the scene of the only British warship loss in the Second Boer War when the cruiser HMS Sybille of the Apollo class stranded here on January 16, 1901 due to a navigation error and was lost.
In 1913 a fishing village was founded on the Otterdam farm , named after Sir Robert Lambert, who was naval commander of the Cape region between 1820 and 1821. In 1929 the settlement was proclaimed a local area without the right to self-government. There has been a board of directors here since 1934. The place received city rights in 1969.
Web links
- Lambert's Bay Tourism Office: website . on www.lambertsbay.co.za (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Cederberg Local Municipality: About us . on www.cederbergmun.gov.za (English)
- ↑ 2011 census , accessed November 22, 2013
- ^ Peter Edmund Raper : Dictionary of Southern African Place Names . Lowry Publishers, Johannesburg 1987 (2nd ed.), P. 193.