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    Saldanha Bay (Afrikaans: Saldanhabaai) is a natural harbour on the south-western coast of South Africa. The town that developed on the northern shore of...
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    Saldanha (Afrikaans: [sal'dana]), also known as Saldanha Bay, is a town of 21,636 people, located 110 kilometres (70 mi) north of Cape Town on the northern...
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    Saldanha Bay Municipality (Afrikaans: Saldanhabaai Munisipaliteit; Xhosa: uMasipala wase Saldanha Bay) is a local municipality located within the West...
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  • Saldanha may refer to: Saldanha Bay, a bay in Western Cape Saldanha, Western Cape, a town on the bay Saldanha Bay Local Municipality, the unit of government...
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  • The Diocese of Saldanha Bay is a diocese in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. The diocese was founded on 10 December 2005 and is based in the territory...
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    The Capitulation of Saldanha Bay was the surrender in 1796 to the British Royal Navy of a Dutch expeditionary force sent to recapture the Dutch Cape Colony...
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  • connects iron ore mines near Sishen in the Northern Cape with the port at Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape. It is used primarily to transport iron ore (60 million...
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    Langebaan (category Populated places in the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality)
    about 28 km from Vredenburg and 20 km from Saldanha Bay. The Lagoon stretches for 17 km from Saldanha Bay, past Langebaan to Geelbek in the South. In...
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    but then had moved them to Saldanha Bay. In 1806, the Scottish whaler John Murray opened a whaling station at a sheltered bay on the north-eastern shore...
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  • António de Saldanha was a Castilian-Portuguese 16th-century captain. He was the first European to set anchor in what is now called Table Bay, South Africa...
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    Cochoquas, disguised as traders, arrived at the Company's trading post at Saldanha Bay on 6 July 1673 when suddenly they attacked and murdered four of the soldiers...
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    Schaapeneiland ("Sheep Island") is an island in Saldanha Bay on West Coast, Western Cape, South Africa. The island of 267,500 sq m lies in the mouth of...
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    Table Bay, because good natural harbours along this coastline are almost non-existent. The best of them, Saldanha Bay, lacked fresh water. Simon's Bay was...
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    The Battle of Saldanha Bay was a naval action that occurred off the Dutch Cape Colony on 21 July 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. A squadron of...
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    captured at the Capitulation of Saldanha Bay in 1796, sold 1814 Tromp (c. 1779), captured at the Capitulation of Saldanha Bay in 1796, sold 1815 Alkmaar (c...
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    number of coastal holiday resorts as well as the ore-export harbour at Saldanha Bay. On the north the Swartland is bounded by mountains which separate it...
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  • The party won seven council seats in Cape Town and one seat in the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality. In 2023, the party renamed itself from the Cape Coloured...
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    Vredenburg (category Populated places in the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality)
    administrative centre of the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality. It is located 12 kilometres inland from the coast at Saldanha Bay on the Cape Columbine Peninsula...
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    rocky to steep and mountainous in places. The only natural harbour is Saldanha Bay on the west coast, about 140 kilometres (90 mi) north of Cape Town. However...
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    Saldanha catshark, Apristurus saldanha (Barnard 1925) (Saldanha Bay) Tiger catshark, Halaelurus natalensis (Regan, 1904) (Saldanha Bay to Algoa Bay)...
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    Leucosolenida Family Sycettidae Hairy tube sponge, Sycon spp. (Saldanha Bay to Kosi Bay) Family Leucosoleniidae Branching ball sponge, Leucosolenia sp...
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  • of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Saldanha, after the 1796 capitulation of Saldanha Bay: HMS Saldanha was the 40-gun fifth rate Castor, which the...
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    during the War of the Second Coalition. However, the Capitulation of Saldanha Bay, the Battle of Camperdown and the Vlieter incident showed that the navy...
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  • Batavian Navy, was forced to surrender that squadron on 17 August 1796 at Saldanha Bay (Cape Colony) to a Royal Navy squadron under Vice-Admiral George Elphinstone...
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    Luanda Bay Walvis Bay Saldanha Bay Table Bay False Bay (coast-wise from north to south) North Water Polynya Baffin Bay Davis Strait Home Bay Labrador...
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    Lawrence Troon in Nelson Mandela Bay, Elizabeth Johnson in Kimberley, Donovan Saptoe in George, Ryan Don in Saldanha Bay, and Sharifa Essop in Beaufort...
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    town in the Western Cape, South Africa, located about 80 km east of Saldanha Bay. The original spelling of the name was "Piquetberg". The town is in the...
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    Saint Helena Bay (Afrikaans: St. Helenabaai) is a settlement in West Coast District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Nicknamed...
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  • against. In 2022, the Bishops of the Dioceses of Lesotho, False Bay, and Saldanha Bay signed a statement expressing support for the inclusion of LGBTQ...
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  • Britannia Bay is a small town in the West Coast District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa, approximately 141 kilometres (88 mi)...
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