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3 unusual facts about Sea Point


Camps Bay

Kloof Road was built in 1848 and in 1884 Thomas Bain was commissioned to build a road from Sea Point to Camps Bay using convict labour.

Cecil Higgs

Higgs eventually settled in Sea Point, however the influence of the sea in her paintings led to her label as a marine painter.

Edwin Percy Phillips

Edwin Percy Phillips (18 February 1884 Sea Point, Cape Town - 12 April 1967 Cape Town), was a South African botanist and taxonomist, noted for his monumental work The Genera of South African Flowering Plants first published in 1926.


Sea Point Days

Sea Point Days is a 2008 documentary film about the Cape Town suburb of Sea Point, directed by François Verster.

Wingfield Aerodrome

Places in the vicinity of Cape Town known to be used as airfields included Kenilworth race course, Green Point Common and Green Point cycle track, Sea Point, Robben Island, Maitland Common, Rosebank Showgrounds and Mr Young's farm near Wynberg as well as local beaches.


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