cape town

     

Founded in 1652, it's South Africa's oldest city established by Europeans

Trivia about cape town

  • If you're in this South African town of about 3 million, take the cableway up Table Mountain, which overlooks it
  • It's about 30 miles north of the Cape of Good Hope
  • This big city lies just 30 miles north of the Cape of Good Hope
  • This legislative capital is nicknamed the "Mother City of South Africa"
  • Of the capitals of South Africa, it's the only one that fits the category
  • Go sail into this port city, "Kaapstad" in Afrikaans, founded in 1652 by a Dutch official
  • For 18 years of his 27-year imprisonment, Nelson was held in Robben Island Prison near this South African city
  • Jan Van Riebeeck led the first European settlement of what would become this South African seaport
  • In 1967 the first human heart transplant was performed at Groote Schuur Hospital in this city
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  • To an Afrikaaner, this city is Kaapstad
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew points out a South Atlantic island on a map on the monitor.) Tristan da Cunha is often called the most remote inhabited island--the nearest major city is this one, 1500 miles away
  • It's the only one of South Africa's 3 capitals that is also a seaport