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Title: Swimming pool at Miller's Point, Cape Town
Subject: Ocean, ,
Description: Swimming-pool takes shape at Miller's Point. Below: The building where caravan campers will be able to have showers and baths.
Identifier: islandora:15275

Title: Sodwana Bay
Subject: Indian Ocean Coastal Belt, , , ,
Description: Location: Sodwana Bay National Park., Ecology: Grassland with forest patches.
Identifier: islandora:10510

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: Transkei, near Port St. Johns
Subject: Indian Ocean Coastal Belt, , ,
Description: Location: Near Port St. Johns., Ecology: Coastline, coastal forest and grassland.
Identifier: islandora:10466

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: St. Lucia
Subject: Forest, Indian Ocean Coastal Belt, Zonal & Intrazonal Forest, , , ,
Description: Location: Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park., Ecology: Grassland and dune forest.
Identifier: islandora:10452

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: Aerial view of Muizenberg
Subject: Infrastructure, Residential buildings, Ocean, ,
Description: Muizenberg, with all its natural attractions, has its car-parks and beaches crowded by visitors for only a comparitively short period of the year. Most of the time it looks like this.
Identifier: islandora:15400

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: Aerial view of Chapman's Peak, Cape Town
Subject: Landscapes, Ocean, ,
Description: Chapman's Peak got its name from Caapmans / This unusual view of Chapman's Peak drive taken by The Argus photographer shows the white sands of Noordhoek on the right and Fish Hoek in the background. In the distance across False bay can be seen Cape Hangklip.
Identifier: islandora:15569

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

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