"recorded just 38 minutes of sunshine, a record low for Scotland. This exposed position, however, also means severe frost is rare compared to inland locations such as Altnaharra or Kinbrace. The record low of is comparable to those recorded on Shetland, the Hebrides and the Scilly Isles of England. A slight fohn effect can also occur with the right angle of southerly winds, exemplified by the record December high of . Strong winds can be a feature of weather conditions at the cape, with gusts of recorded. Because its landscape is largely untouched by man, Cape Wrath has a wide"
"Cape Wrath Lighthouse Cape Wrath Lighthouse at Cape Wrath was built in 1828 by Robert Stevenson and was manned until 1998, when it was converted to automatic operation by the Northern Lighthouse Board. It is located at the most North-Westerly point on the British mainland, in the traditional county of Sutherland within Highland Region. Durness is the closest village, to the south-east with Inverness around to the south. Overlooking the Cape are the ruins of the Lloyd's signal station, which was used to monitor shipping and was built in the 19th century. The light, which is above sea level, is"
"Wrath Challenge"". The sole inhabitants of the Cape are the Ure family, renting the main building. They converted it into a three-bedroomed home, and opened what is claimed to be Britain's most remote cafe, the Ozone Cafe, in 2009. The cafe was opened by the Princess Royal, and seats eight people. The Durness Development Group has made proposals, assisted by the Highlands and Islands Social Enterprise Zone, to develop Cape Wrath as a visitor location. These may see the number of visitors rise to 10,000 and facilities at the Cape developed. From the south, the only route to the Cape"
"Cape Town Cape Town ( ; Xhosa: ""iKapa""; Dutch: ""Kaapstad"") is a coastal city in South Africa. It is the capital and primate city of the Western Cape province. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. As the place where the Parliament of South Africa is found, Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa. The other two capitals are located in Pretoria (the administrative capital where the President and Cabinet work) and Bloemfontein (the judicial capital where the National Court of Appeal is located). The city is known for its harbour, for its natural"
"Cape vulture The Cape griffon or Cape vulture (""Gyps coprotheres""), also known as Kolbe's vulture, is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae. It is endemic to southern Africa, and is found mainly in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana and in some parts of northern Namibia. It nests on cliffs and lays one egg per year. Since 2015, it has been classified as Endangered. This large vulture is of a creamy-buff colour, with contrasting dark flight- and tail-feathers. The adult is paler than the juvenile, and its underwing coverts can appear almost white at a distance. The head and neck"
"requisitioned for wartime service, foundered off Cape Wrath in bad weather. A tow by HMS ""Birkenhead"" was unsuccessful, and 15 died. An inquiry later blamed the ship's carpenter for being insufficiently familiar with the ship and for failing to shut all the scuttles, like most of the crew, he had joined the ship just 10 days earlier. The wreck was found in 2004, off Cape Wrath, in of water and undisturbed except for fishing nets. Cape Wrath is located in the traditional county of Sutherland within Highland Region. Durness is the closest village, to the south-east with Inverness around to"
"the Ministry of Defence and is used as a military training area, including as live firing range. Areas of it are also designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a Special Protection Area, a Special Area of Conservation and a Special Landscape Area. The name Cape Wrath is derived from Old Norse "" (""turning point""), accordingly, ""wrath"" is pronounced (to rhyme with ""math""), Vikings are believed to have used the cape as a navigation point where they would turn their ships. Cape Wrath was once the home of a series of small crofting communities, although by 1845 the only"
"Graafwater Graafwater is a town in the Sandveld in the Western Cape province of South Africa situated 300 km from Cape Town, about halfway between Clanwilliam and Lamberts Bay. Graafwater is the Afrikaans term for ""water from a spade"" referring to the Afrikaans farming culture found in South Africa at the time of establishment. It is located in the Cederberg Municipality. Graafwater is often divided into Graafwater North and Graafwater South. After the railway junction between Cape Town and Bitterfontein was built in 1910, the town Graafwater was established. The local Dutch Reformed Church of Leipoldtville developed the town further."
"Western Cape The Western Cape (; ) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populated, with an estimated 6.6 million inhabitants in 2018. About two-thirds of these inhabitants live in the metropolitan area of Cape Town, which is also the provincial capital. The Western Cape was created in 1994 from part of the former Cape Province. The Western Cape Province is roughly L-shaped, extending north and east from the Cape of Good Hope, in the"
"were built by Lloyd's of London between 1894 and 1903 as a signal station to track shipping around the Cape. This closed in 1932, although the buildings were reused at the start of World War II as a coastguard station. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) owns a area of the cape, known as the Cape Wrath Training Centre. The cape was used for training exercises from the early years of the 20th century, with the first by-laws established in 1933 to allow use of the area as a firing range. The area was used originally as a naval gunnery range"
"associated enclosures existed at Daill, Achiemore, Kearvaig and Inshore into the mid-20th century. The land originally formed part of the Sutherland estates owned by the Duke of Sutherland.. An area of , covering almost all of the northern part of the peninsula, is owned by the Ministry of Defence for use as a military training area. As with the rest of the British Isles, Cape Wrath has an Oceanic (Köppen Cfb) climate. This is especially pronounced due to its western coastal location. Its exposed northerly position can give rise to some exceptionally low winter sunshine levels: in January 1983 it"
"Cape cormorant The Cape cormorant or Cape shag (""Phalacrocorax capensis"") is a bird endemic to the southwestern coasts of Africa. It breeds from Namibia south to southern Western Cape. In the nonbreeding season, it may be found as far north as the mouth of the Congo, and also extends up the east coast of South Africa as far as Mozambique. In the 1970s, the breeding population was estimated as over 1 million in Namibia alone. However, the IUCN now classifies it as ""Endangered"" due to a very rapid decline in the population over the last three generations. The Cape cormorant"
"Rust en Vreugd Rust en Vreugd (meaning ""Rest and Joy""), is a historic house and garden, located on the edge of the central business district of Cape Town, South Africa. It is one of the few remaining 18th-century buildings in the city. The Rust en Vreudg is home to the William Fehr Collection of pictorial Africana. It is a part of the Iziko Museums. The Rust en Vreudg house was built as residence for Williem Cornelis Boers in 1778 who was of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). A rococo fanlight at the entrance of the house has been ascribed"
"a use which continues today, and shielings, shelters built for shepherds, can be found across the Cape. The area declined in population in the mid-20th century and is now almost entirely unpopulated, although military and tourism use continues. The Cape Wrath Lighthouse was built in 1828 and the access road from the Kyle of Durness dates from the same period. A Lloyd's of London signal station was built close to the lighthouse at the end of the 19th century to track shipping around the Cape. On 27 September 1915, while sailing for Scapa Flow, HMS ""Caribbean"", known as before being"
"to sculptor Anton Anreith. Official Website Rust en Vreugd Rust en Vreugd (meaning ""Rest and Joy""), is a historic house and garden, located on the edge of the central business district of Cape Town, South Africa. It is one of the few remaining 18th-century buildings in the city. The Rust en Vreudg is home to the William Fehr Collection of pictorial Africana. It is a part of the Iziko Museums. The Rust en Vreudg house was built as residence for Williem Cornelis Boers in 1778 who was of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). A rococo fanlight at the entrance"
"The Graafwater Dutch Reformed church formed its own congregation after a few years. Graafwater Graafwater is a town in the Sandveld in the Western Cape province of South Africa situated 300 km from Cape Town, about halfway between Clanwilliam and Lamberts Bay. Graafwater is the Afrikaans term for ""water from a spade"" referring to the Afrikaans farming culture found in South Africa at the time of establishment. It is located in the Cederberg Municipality. Graafwater is often divided into Graafwater North and Graafwater South. After the railway junction between Cape Town and Bitterfontein was built in 1910, the town Graafwater"
"Cape Province The Province of the Cape of Good Hope (), commonly referred to as the Cape Province () and colloquially as The Cape (), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa. It encompassed the old Cape Colony, and had Cape Town as its capital. Following the end of the Apartheid era, the Cape Province was split up to form the new Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Western Cape provinces, along with part of the North West. When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, the original Cape Colony"
"Witwatersrand The Witwatersrand (locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a , north-facing scarp in South Africa. It consists of a hard, erosion-resistant quartzite metamorphic rock, over which several north-flowing rivers form waterfalls, which account for the name Witwatersrand, meaning ""ridge of white waters"" in Afrikaans. This east-west-running scarp can be traced with only one short gap, from Bedfordview (about west of O.R. Tambo International Airport) in the east, through Johannesburg and Roodepoort, to Krugersdorp in the west (see the diagram at left below). The scarp forms the northern edge of a plateau (or ridge) which rises about"
"of the southern tip of Africa during the Napoleonic Wars. The Dutch East India Company built the first Cape settlement in 1652, bringing southern Africa into the Dutch Empire. In 1795 revolutionary France invaded and occupied the Dutch Republic, and established a puppet allied-state there, known as the Batavian Republic. All the former colonies of the Dutch Republic came under the control of the Batavian Republic, who were allied to France, Britain’s enemy in the French Revolutionary Wars. Realising the Cape’s strategic importance for control of the seas and access to India and the Far East, Britain attacked the Batavian"
"Claremont, Cape Town Claremont is a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It is situated six miles south of the city, and is one of the so-called ""Southern Suburbs"", it is situated alongside Lansdowne. It is an important commercial and residential area, which is currently experiencing significant growth and development. Until the arrival of Dutch colonists in 1652, the uncultivated veld of the Cape Peninsula was used by the nomadic Khoisan as grazing for their cattle. The Dutch established an outpost on the shore of Table Bay, and in 1657 they established a number of farms south of the outpost."
"in the Netherlands). The island was to switch hands between the Portuguese and Dutch several more times before falling to the English under Admiral Robert Holmes on January 23, 1664, and finally to the French in 1677. Though under continuous French administration since, métis families, descended from Dutch and French traders and African wives, dominated the slave trade. The infamous ""House of Slaves"" was built at Gorée in 1776. In 1795, the Lebou of Cape Verde revolted against Cayor rule. A new theocratic state, subsequently called the ""Lebou Republic"" by the French, was established under the leadership of the Diop,"
"Cape Ward Hunt Cape Ward Hunt is a cape on the north coast of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. The cape was named after George Ward Hunt, First Lord of the Admiralty (1874-1877), by Captain John Moresby. The cape is a bold, well-wooded point about that rises to an elevation of , with a disused , metal-framework light tower on the point and a conspicuous rock named Craigs Pillar at its eastern extremity. The waters lying between Cape Ward Hunt and Cape Nelson about distant are described as being: of the most dangerous character, due to the unsurveyed areas and"
"Strand, Western Cape Strand (Afrikaans for 'beach') is a seaside resort situated on the eastern edge of False Bay and at the foot of the Hottentots Holland Mountains. Its geographical position is between Macassar and Gordon's Bay, and is about 50 km southeast of Cape Town. Strand is in the Western Cape province of South Africa, and has a population of approximately 50,000. Strand's main attraction is the beach; 5 km of white sandy beach off False Bay. Strand is often referred to as ""The Strand"" (Afrikaans: ""Die Strand""), which is the old name of the town. The vehicle registration"
"Castle of Good Hope The Castle of Good Hope (; ) known locally as the Castle or Cape Town Castle is a bastion fort built in the 17th century in Cape Town, South Africa. Originally located on the coastline of Table Bay, following land reclamation the fort is now located inland. In 1936 the Castle was declared a historical monument (now a provincial heritage site) and following restorations in the 1980s it is considered the best preserved example of a Dutch East India Company fort. Built by the Dutch East India Company between 1666 and 1679, the Castle is the"
"Western Cape Division The Western Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa (previously named the Cape Provincial Division and the Western Cape High Court, and commonly known as the Cape High Court) is a superior court of law with general jurisdiction over the Western Cape province of South Africa. The division, which sits at Cape Town, consists of 31 judges led by Judge President John Hlophe. The origins of the Western Cape Division lie in the Supreme Court of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, which was established on 1 January 1828 as the highest court"
"Congress. Cape Agulhas Local Municipality Cape Agulhas Municipality () is a municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. it had a population of 33,038. Its municipality code is WC033. It is named after Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of Africa. The largest town is Bredasdorp, which is the seat of the municipal headquarters. It also includes the villages of Napier, Struisbaai, Elim, Arniston and L'Agulhas, and the De Hoop Nature Reserve. The municipality covers an area of in the Southern Overberg, covering a radius of 30 to 40 kilometres (20 to 25 mi) around Bredasdorp as well"
"St. Mary's Cathedral, Cape Town The St. Mary's Cathedral more formally known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt, is the name given to a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in Cape Town, in South Africa. The story of the Cathedral Church of Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt in Cape Town, the seat of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Cape Town, is intimately associated with the history and development of the Roman Catholic Church in Southern Africa over a period of more than 175 years. Affectionately known by many as"
"cinereous vulture, the Cape vulture is the third largest Old World vulture. The Cape vulture occurs in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Formerly it could also be found in Namibia and Swaziland. Vagrants are occasionally recorded from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia. The species usually breeds and roosts on cliff faces in or near mountains, from where it can fly long distances in search of the large animal carcasses on which it specializes. Tracked specimens in Namibia were found to have home ranges 11,800 - 22,500 km in extent. In the Eastern Cape of"
"Cape Cross Cape Cross (Afrikaans: ""Kaap Kruis""; German: ""Kreuzkap""; Portuguese: ""Cabo da Cruz"") is a small headland in the South Atlantic in Skeleton Coast, western Namibia, on the C34 highway some 60 kilometres north of Hentiesbaai and 120 km north of Swakopmund on the west coast of Namibia. The Portuguese navigator and explorer Diogo Cão was in 1484 ordered by King João II, as part of the search for a sea route to India and the Spice Islands, to advance south into undiscovered regions along the west coast of Africa. While doing so, he was to choose some particularly salient"
"Cathcart, Eastern Cape Cathcart is a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, named after Sir George Cathcart, governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope 1852–1853. The town is situated on the N6, north of Stutterheim en route to Queenstown. Originally a small military post, established during the Eighth Frontier War, it was established as a village in 1858 when German colonists arrived in the region. Work on its railway connection to East London on the coast was begun by the Cape government of John Molteno in 1876 and the line was officially opened on"
"Cape Race Cape Race is a point of land located at the southeastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Its name is thought to come from the original Portuguese name for this cape, ""Raso"", meaning flat or low-lying. The Cape appeared on early sixteenth century maps as Cabo Raso and its name may derive from a cape of the same name at the mouth of the Tagus River in Portugal. The cape was the location of the Cape Race LORAN-C transmitter until the system was decommissioned in 2010. It is also"
"University of Cape Town The University of Cape Town (UCT) is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College making it the oldest higher education institute in South Africa. It is jointly the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant university in Sub-Saharan Africa alongside Stellenbosch University which received full university status on the same day in 1918. UCT is the highest-ranked African university in the QS World University Rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and the Academic"
"areas. The Western Cape is the southernmost region of the African continent with Cape Agulhas as its southernmost point, only 3800 km from the Antarctic coastline. The coastline varies from sandy between capes, to rocky to steep and mountainous in places. The only natural harbour is Saldanha Bay on the west coast, about 140 km north of Cape Town. However a lack of fresh water in the region meant that it has only recently been used as a harbour. The province's main harbour was built in Table Bay, which in its natural state was fully exposed to the northwesterly storms"