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Mossel Bay Destination Guide

Touring Mossel Bay in South Africa

Mossel Bay in the region of Western Cape is a city located in South Africa - some 686 mi or ( 1104 km ) South-West of Pretoria , the country's capital city .

Interactive map of Mossel Bay

Time in Mossel Bay is now 06:30 PM (Thursday) . The local timezone is named " Africa/Johannesburg " with a UTC offset of 2 hours. Depending on your travel resources, these more prominent places might be interesting for you: Voorbaai, Reebok, Mossel Bay, Klein-Brakrivierstrand, and Klein-Brakrivier. Being here already, consider visiting Voorbaai . We collected some hobby film on the internet . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Check out our recommendations for Mossel Bay ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


Videos

Close encounter with great white shark

1:29 min by wildwingssafaris
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Mosselbay, South Africa, has one of the highest concentrations of great white sharks in the world. There were 6 or 7 of them circling the boat and this one came right up to the cage with divers, fight ..

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Interesting facts about this location

Mossel Bay

Mossel Bay (Afrikaans Mosselbaai) is a harbour town of about 130,000 people on the Southern Cape of South Africa. It is an important tourism and farming region of the Western Cape Province. Mossel Bay lies 400 kilometres east of the country's seat of parliament, Cape Town (which is also the capital city of the Western Cape Province), and 400 km west of Port Elizabeth, the largest city in the Eastern Cape Province.

More reading: Wikipedia Article
Located at -34.18 22.15 (Lat./Long.); Less than 0 km away
Tags: History of South Africa, Maritime history of South Africa, Places in Western Cape with Coloured majority populations, Populated coastal places in South Africa, Populated places in the Eden District Municipality, Ports and harbours of South Africa

Mossel Bay Yacht and Boat Club

Mossel Bay Yacht and Boat Club, / Mosselbaai Seiljag- en Bootklub (Afrikaans), established in 1956, is a yacht club in South Africa. It is located in the harbour city of Mossel Bay on the Garden Route in the Western Cape Province. The club is multi-aquatic for the disciplines of yachting (keelboat, multihull and dinghies), boating (motor yacht/boat leisure and deep sea angling), diving, rowing, development of the youth and social.

More reading: Wikipedia Article
Located at -34.18 22.14 (Lat./Long.); Less than 1 km away
Tags: 1956 establishments in South Africa, Clubs and societies in South Africa, Sailing in South Africa, Yacht clubs in South Africa

Pinnacle Point

Pinnacle Point is a small promontory immediately south of Mossel Bay, a town on the southern coast of South Africa. Excavations since the year 2000 of a series of caves at Pinnacle Point have revealed occupation by Middle Stone Age people between 170,000 and 40,000 years ago.

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Located at -34.21 22.09 (Lat./Long.); Less than 6 km away
Tags: Archaeological sites in South Africa, Paleoanthropological sites, South African heritage resources, South African heritage sites

Groot Brak Rivier

Groot Brak Rivier is a settlement in Eden District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. This is a historic village built around the Great Brak River Lagoon, about 27 km east of Mossel Bay’s CBD. It was founded by the Searle family of Surrey, England — of which the elder brother, Richard (originally a labourer), emigrated to South Africa under a Government-sponsored scheme in 1845. He arrived in Great Brak River to work for the Central Road Board in 1850.

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Located at -34.05 22.24 (Lat./Long.); Less than 17 km away
Tags: Populated places in the Eden District Municipality

Wolwedans Dam

Wolwedans Dam is a dam in South Africa on the Great Brak River near Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1990. The dam is the main source of water for the municipality of Mossel Bay as well as the gas-to-liquids refinery PetroSA.

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Located at -34.01 22.22 (Lat./Long.); Less than 20 km away
Tags: Dams completed in 1990, Dams in South Africa

Historical Weather

temperature and rainfall during the year in Mossel Bay