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unusual facts about Saldanha Bay


Wolraad Woltemade

The Dutch East India Company provided amply for his widow and children and named a ship Held Woldemade, taken by the British fleet as prize during the battle in Saldanha Bay on 4 July 1781.


Chaetopleura pertusa

This species is found around the South African coast from Saldanha Bay to Kosi Bay, subtidally to at least 20 m.

Die Matie

8,000 copies of the newspaper are distributed on the main campus of Stellenbosch, as well as on the three satellite campuses, the medical campus at Tygerberg, military campus at Saldanha and business school in Bellville.

Malgas Island

Malgas Island is a small, 8.3 ha, uninhabited island lying in the northern part of the entrance to Saldanha Bay, in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

MV Dunedin Star

MV Dunedin Star I was a Blue Star Line ship that ran aground on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia on November 29, 1942 while carrying passengers and cargo from Liverpool to Saldanha Bay, South Africa and to Aden and Egypt.

Sepia vermiculata

This cuttlefish is found around the South African coast from Saldanha Bay to Algoa Bay, subtidally to at least 40m.

Table Bay

The best of them- Saldanha Bay- lacked fresh water and the only realistic alternatives- Simon's Bay and Houtbaai- were rightly inaccessible at the time and only marginally less exposed to the weather, which is notoriously bad often enough in the Cape Peninisula (see article on S.S. Maori and Seapoint).


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