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    Simon's Town (Afrikaans: Simonstad), sometimes spelled Simonstown, is a town in the Western Cape, South Africa and is home to Naval Base Simon's Town...
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  • Christoffel Brand (1738–1815) was a trader, a well-known host at Simon’s Town near Cape Town, welcoming ships using it as a refreshment station and a participant...
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    Muizenberg is situated on the main commuter to connect line between Cape Town and Simon’s Town, known as the Southern Line which is operated by Metrorail. Metrorail...
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    Cape near Cape Town. The base provides support functions to Fleet Command. A small dockyard facility was first established in Simon's Town by the Dutch...
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    Cape Town metropolitan area, the M6 and M65. The M6 links Noordhoek to Hout Bay and Cape Town in the north as ‘Noordhoek Main Road’ and Simon’s Town in...
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    Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the country's...
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  • Penguin Town is a 2021 Netflix Original documentary television series narrated by Patton Oswalt. It follows a group of endangered penguins in Simon's Town, South...
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  • Simon James Towns MNZM (born 17 September 1972, in Wellington) is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team...
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  • December 2011. (in Afrikaans) Rice, Bill (2010). Simon's Town Dockyard: The First 100 Years. Simon’s Town Historical Society/South African Naval Heritage...
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    False Bay (category Geography of Cape Town)
    34°8′21″S 18°50′46″E / 34.13917°S 18.84611°E / -34.13917; 18.84611 The Simon’s Town Jetty is between the False Bay Yacht Club and the west section of the...
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    planning stages, the agreement was intended to include: the combined use of Simon’s Town by the Royal Navy and South African Navy in peace and in war (even if...
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  • This is a list of suburbs in the City of Cape Town, South Africa, which includes the city of Cape Town, as well as its surrounding suburbs and exurbs....
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    Golden Arrow Bus Services (category Companies based in Cape Town)
    has also designed and built depot facilities in Woodstock, Philippi, Simon’s Town and Atlantis. In 2004, South African holding company Hosken Consolidated...
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    well as protecting the strategically important Royal Navy naval base at Simon's Town. On 1 April 1922, the South African Naval Service (SANS) was formed and...
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  • Cape Community FM (category Radio stations in Cape Town)
    Baptist Church. It currently broadcasts in Cape Town, False Bay, Stellenbosch, Goodwood, Fish Hoek, Simon’s Town, and Atlantis on 96.7 & 107.5 FM. English is...
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    October the Task Group visited the South African Navy’s base at Simon’s Town, near Cape Town, en route. On 10 and 11 March 1975 Olna was deployed to provide...
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    The City of Cape Town (Cape Town metropolitan area) like most South African metropolitan areas, uses Metropolitan or "M" routes for important intra-city...
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    Established in 1977, Simon's Town Museum is a community museum situated in Simon's Town, a coastal town in the Western Cape Province of the Republic of...
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    Tristan da Cunha, and paid a royal visit to Cape Town on 24 August 1867 after landing at Simon's Town a while earlier. He landed at Glenelg, South Australia...
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    and 1944 served at HMS Afrikander, a Royal Navy shore establishment in Simon's Town, South Africa. He died in 1944 at the age of seven years and was buried...
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    Simon's Town railway station is a Metrorail railway station in the town of Simon's Town on the Cape Peninsula; it is the southern terminus of the Southern...
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    GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a list of the heritage sites in Simon's Town as recognized by the South African Heritage Resources Agency. Wikimedia...
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    Garfunkel joined Simon again on the 1975 Top 10 single "My Little Town". Simon wrote this song for Garfunkel, whose solo output Simon felt lacked "bite"...
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    Africa, one at Simon's Town Naval base near Cape Town, one at Cape Town, and the third at Fort Beaufort. The tower at Simon's Town and Cape Town were both...
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    Vice-Admiral Sir George Elphinstone and sailed in April 1795, arriving off Simon's Town at the Cape in June. Attempts were made to negotiate a settlement with...
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    drowned after three fishing boats sank in a storm, Miss Pattie Price of Simon’s Town whose own life had been saved by a RNLI lifeboat in the English Channel...
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  • Milnerton Mitchell's Plain Muizenberg Noordhoek Nyanga Parow Philadelphia Simon's Town Somerset West Strand Aurora Bitterfontein Chatsworth Citrusdal Clanwilliam...
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    by penguins in the 1980s on the mainland near Cape Town, namely Boulders Beach near Simon's Town and Stony Point in Betty's Bay. Mainland colonies likely...
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    African Navy Schmidt, Michael (8 April 2006). "Warrior queen arrives in Simon's Town". The Independent on Saturday. p. 2. Retrieved 8 April 2006. "S-101 Commissioned"...
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    Cape of Good Hope (category Geography of Cape Town)
    1910Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Simon's Town – Seaside town in South Africa Postage stamps and postal history of the Cape...
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