Western Cape, South Africa · South Africa
Oslo → Cape Town?
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The facts, computed today
- Coordinates
- 33.92°S 18.42°E
- Great-circle distance from Oslo
- 10,458 km
- Direction from Oslo
- south
- Daylight there today
- 12h 11m
0h 06m more than Oslo
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In short
Cape Town
Cape Town grew from a way-station the Dutch East India Company established in 1652 to supply ships bound for the East Indies. It is South Africa's oldest city and its legislative capital, the seat of Parliament. The City Bowl sits between Table Bay and Table Mountain, whose top reaches 1,086 metres and is often draped in the cloud locals call the tablecloth; a cableway has carried visitors up since 1929.
The mountain is part of the Cape Floral Region Protected Areas, a World Heritage site since 2004: a region covering less than half a percent of Africa but home to nearly a fifth of its plant species, most of them fynbos found nowhere else. In the bay lies Robben Island, listed by UNESCO in 1999, where Nelson Mandela served 18 of his 27 years in prison. The Cape Peninsula runs some 50 kilometres south from the city to Cape Point.
Why people might travel there
South Africa's oldest city, arranged around a flat-topped mountain.
Cape Town lies almost due south of Oslo — about 10,500 kilometres along nearly the same meridian. It is in the catalogue as the southern end of the African direction: mountains, sea and a flora found nowhere else, at the far end of an almost straight line.
Mediterranean: winters from June to September are mild and bring the rain, arriving on Atlantic cold fronts with north-westerly winds; summers from December to March are warm and dry, with a strong south-easterly known as the Cape Doctor. Southern hemisphere, so the seasons are the reverse of Norway's.
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Sources for the facts in this page: City of Cape Town — census data · SANParks — Table Mountain National Park · Table Mountain Aerial Cableway · UNESCO — Cape Floral Region Protected Areas · UNESCO — Robben Island · Wikipedia — Cape Town