Simon's Town

Province

Simon 's Town (sometimes Simonstown; Afrikaans: Simonstad ) is a town in the Western Cape Province in South Africa. It is one of Cape Town and had 2011 6.569 inhabitants. The city was named after Cape Governor Simon van der Stel, who recognized in 1687 that the False Bay could be an ideal anchorage for the Dutch fleet, the Royal Navy during the winter months. Finally, it was Governor Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff, the 1747 built a harbor with docks here. For over two centuries, Simon 's Town, the main base of the South African Navy, the South African Navy. The influence of the British colonial power is visible at the Victorian-style houses that line the main street.

The False Bay, east of Cape Town on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula, but west of Cape Agulhas and is therefore contrary to the widespread opinion of a bay of the Atlantic, not the Indian Ocean.

South of Simon 's Town, the beach Boulder 's Beach, so named is after the huge granite rocks that are scattered over the sandy beach. Live here since 1985 Penguins in one of only three mainland penguin colonies in South Africa.

Simon 's Town is connected by the Southern Line Metrorail Cape Town on the South African railway network.

Simonstown Agreement

From 1806 to 16 June 1975, the naval base of Simonstown was used by the Royal Navy, which on 30 June 1955 in an agreement between the Union of South Africa, United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations on the defense of sea routes to South Africa and to the June 16, 1975 terminated Simonstown Agreement was agreed. The Simon 's Town Naval Base was formally handed over on April 2, 1957, Union of South Africa.