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Title: Aerial view of Du Noon near Milnerton, Cape Town
Subject: Aerial views, Ocean, Infrastructure, Industries, Landscapes, Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), ,
Description: Du Noon.
Identifier: islandora:15299

Title: False Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), False Bay (Western Cape, South Africa), Mountains, Landscapes, Ocean
Description: Perched on a mountain top high above False Bay, the view is magnificent. This photograph, taken from Silvermine Mountain above Kalk Bay, shows Elsie's Peak and Simonstown mountains in the background.
Identifier: islandora:14879

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Fishing industry, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood
Description: Japanese, Korean and Formosan fishing vessels operating off the South African coast take advantage of the bad winter weather to carry out checks on gear and minor repairs in Cape Town. A large number of the foreign fishing fleet are at present in port or lying in Table Bay.
Identifier: islandora:14624

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Ships, Army, Navies, Ocean
Description: Recent visitors to Cape Town were these five fishing vessels which came in under the Frelimo flag - the first visitors to be seen locally. The craft which were registered in Maputo, Beira and Angoche, came in for minor repairs but crewmen would not say where they had come from or where they were bound.
Identifier: islandora:14627

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Fishing industry, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood
Description: Japanese fishing boats take a break at Cape Town docks to take on supplies and overhaul their deep-sea crayfish nets. The heavily equipped vessels have been fishing beyond South Africa's territorial limits.
Identifier: islandora:15021

Title: Aerial view of Otto du Plessis Drive, Cape Town
Subject: Aerial views, Ocean, Lion's Head (Cape Town, South Africa), Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), Infrastructure, Building, ,
Description: The Otto du Plessis Drive over the new railway to the container berths in Table Bay harbour has been opened to traffic. The bridge was constructed by Murray and Stewart (Cape Town).
Identifier: islandora:15302

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Table Bay (South Africa), Fishing industry, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood, Weather, Winds
Description: A fairly large number of Saldanha-based trawlers were forced to take shelter in Table Bay this week because of the high winds at sea. According to port officials the vessels were all wooden pelagic catchers and their skippers had indicated that the off-shore area between Saldanha and Cape Town had been hammered by south-easterly winds of up to 70 knots. Table Bay itself was lashed by a gale with gusts of up to 55 knots.
Identifier: islandora:15022

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Fishing, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood
Description: Snoek run: the snoek boats are moving with the early morning sun because large shoals have moved in on the Peninsula's Atlantic coastline. Catches of up to 500 fish a boat are being made. Prices have dropped from R3 for a snoek early this week to R1,40. The boats have been working along the coast from Clifton to Slangkop. Fishermen say it could be one of the best snoek seasons in years.
Identifier: islandora:14622

Title: Man looks out to sea at the remains of a ship, Cape Town
Subject: Shipwrecks, Ocean, Industrial sites, Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), ,
Description: Unknown man looks out at unknown shipwreck, Paarden Eiland, Cape town.
Identifier: islandora:15630

Title: A Chart of Guinea
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Includes a large compass rose with radiating rhumb lines. Inlets and bays are named., London. Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698
Identifier: islandora:25405

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Fishing, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood
Description: Lapping away their spare time, awaiting the crew which will send them after snoek, are these wooden fishing craft, banked on one another in Victoria Basin at Cape Town Docks.
Identifier: islandora:15025

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Fishing industry, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood
Description: Japanese, Korean and Formosan tunny boats lay up in Cape Town to carry out repairs and enable crews to check equipment. The short stay in port is a welcome break for the crew members, who have become a familiar sight in the docks and city.
Identifier: islandora:14628

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Fishing industry, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood
Description: Japanese, Korean and Formosan fishing vessels operating off the South African coast take advantage of the bad winter weather to carry out checks on gear and minor repairs in Cape Town. A large number of the foreign fishing fleet are at present in port or lying in Table Bay.
Identifier: islandora:15019

Title: Silvermine mountains, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Silvermine (South Africa), circa 1940, Mountains, Landscapes, Ocean
Description: Silvermine mountains, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14880

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Table Bay (South Africa), Fishing, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood
Description: Fishing fleet, Table Bay.
Identifier: islandora:15029

Title: Mar di Aethiopia vulgo Oceanus Aethiopicus
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Extends eastward to include South America. The compass rose radiates numerous rhumb lines. "An elongated land mass along the lower border is labelled Terra Australis Incognita probably one of the earliest representations of Australia.", Amsterdam. Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
Identifier: islandora:25352

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Fishing, Crayfish industry, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood
Description: Manual Moniz on Seafarer: crayfishing industry.
Identifier: islandora:15030

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Fishing industry, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood
Description: One of the busiest quarters of Cape Town's harbour is the trawler basin which adjoins the Alfred Basin. The fleet of fishing vessels move in and out of the basin as regularly as a yo-yo going up and down but do not attract the same amount of interest as their 'big brothers' of the merchant fleet, which use the facilities in the Victoria Basin and Duncan Dock.
Identifier: islandora:15023

Title: Carta particolare che comincia con il fiume Juntas nella Guinea e finisce con il capo di S. Dara e con l'Isola d'S. Thomaso
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Inset: Island of St. Thomas., Florence. Dudley, Robert, Sir, 1574-1649
Identifier: islandora:25740

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