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Cape Town
Cape Town
GEOGRAPHY Connections This year-long series is presented in collaboration with the Connecticut Geographic Alliance.
Cape Town,
South Africa National Flag
By Kailee Donovan
City View: Hallo, and welcome to Cape Town, South Africa!
Cape Town is one of the southernmost cities located on the
African continent. It is the most popular tourist destination not just in
South Africa but on the African continent. It has numerous beaches,
TAKE 5
peaks for hiking, and a bustling city center. Cape Town has eleven official
languages but the two most often spoken are English and Afrikaans. Online Resources LOCATION - Cape Town’s absolute location is 33.97° S,
Nelson Mandela: http://www.nelsonmandela.org/ 18.42° E.
You may wish to visit Simon’s Town to see the penguins, or you may PLACE - Most of the urban areas of Cape Town are located
enjoy walking in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens. For Cape Town City Info: http://www.capetown.gov.za/
en/Pages/default.aspx in the “City Bowl” or an area of low land surrounded by
those who enjoy extreme sports, winter surf conditions are excellent large mountains. This gives the city an amphitheater-type
for kite-surfing, wind-surfing, board-surfing, and extreme wave surfing. Visiting South Africa: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ look. Image of City Bowl: http://www.photoflytravel.org/
larryolmsted/2013/03/21/cape-town-south-africas- images/2011/07/SA-Cape-Town.jpg
jewel-city/ HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION - The most
Common Core State Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.1-3.10, 4.1-4.10, 5.1-5.10
famous landmark in Cape Town is Table Mountain
Mapping Activity
Cape Town has some very beautiful and unique geography for a city. The peninsula extends like a hook
out into the ocean, the city is surrounded by mountains like Signal Hill, Lion’s Head, Table Mountain, and
Devil’s Peak. Cape Town also has an area of flat land called the Cape Flats. Could you create a 3D model
of Cape Town and label all the different geographic formations on it? Look for a peninsula, mountains,
bays, the ocean, and flats. Take a picture of your model and send it to us! ctgeoalliance@gmail.com
Photos to help you with your model:
Map: http://www.top5africa.com/blogs/sites/default/files/capetown_map.jpg
Map2: http://platinumps.co.za/ContactUs/images/MapOfCapeTown.gif
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