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  • After that time, all ships go to False Bay, which is well sheltered from the north-west winds, which blow here with great violence.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

  • The remarkable proliferation of these sharks around Fish Hoek, where the Atlantic first touches the Indian Ocean on the eastern side of Cape Town known as False Bay, has also brought an influx of wildlife photographers and film crews.

    IOL: News 2010

  • The remarkable proliferation of these sharks around Fish Hoek, where the Atlantic first touches the Indian Ocean on the eastern side of Cape Town known as False Bay, has also brought an influx of wildlife photographers and film crews.

    IOL: News 2010

  • The remarkable proliferation of these sharks around Fish Hoek, where the Atlantic first touches the Indian Ocean on the eastern side of Cape Town known as False Bay, has also brought an influx of wildlife photographers and film crews.

    IOL: News 2010

  • The remarkable proliferation of these sharks around Fish Hoek, where the Atlantic first touches the Indian Ocean on the eastern side of Cape Town known as False Bay, has also brought an influx of wildlife photographers and film crews.

    IOL: News 2010

  • She told the committee that certain areas defined as inland waters, such as False Bay and Table Bay, were excluded from the convention.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • The film is set off Seal Island in False Bay which is teaming with sharks hoping to catch one of the 64,000 seals that populate the island during breeding season.

    Sky Showbiz - Latest 2010

  • I love beach holidays and have so much still to discover: the surfing beaches of False Bay, the remote beaches of the South Peninsula, fashionable Clifton and the sundowner-haven of Llandudno.

    'You would be forgiven for thinking you were on a remote, palm-fringed island' 2011

  • There is plenty of scrupulously rendered period detail, as when L'Aurore approaches its destination and we're told that "they were coming up with Cape Hangklip: it was sometimes confused with the real Cape, out of sight on the other side, and unwary westbound ships thinking to turn up for the final run north would similarly find themselves embayed, hence the name—False Bay."

    At Journey's End, a Ship of the Line Steve Donoghue 2011

  • Halle Berry shows off her sexy curves in a bright bikini top while shooting scenes for her upcoming movie, Dark Tide, at Seal Island, False Bay in South Africa on Friday (July 30).

    Halle Berry In Bikini & Wetsuit In South Africa 2010

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