| The Cape Peninsula, also known as the Peninsula of the Cape of Good Hope, is a generally rocky peninsula that juts out for 75 kilometres into the Southern Ocean at the the south-western (NOT the southern) extremity of the African continent. The peninsula was once an island but about sixty million years ago it was joined to the mainland by the emergence from the sea of the sandy area now known as the Cape Flats. On the northern end is the famous Table Mountain, overlooking Cape Town, South Africa. The towns and villages of the Cape Peninsula now form part of the greater City of Cape Town.
There is a dispute as to where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet; some say at the southern tip of the Cape Peninsula and some say at Cape Agulhas. |
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