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Last update: 2018·02·03
Looking south from atop Table Mountain on a cloudy, windy summer's afternoon. [South Africa, 2014]
People walking on Dias Beach, at Cape Point: a mountainous and scenic promontory that runs north-south for about thirty kilometres at the extreme southwestern tip of the African continent , near Cape Town. The beach is named after the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias, who in 1488 was the first European to round the Cape. [South Africa, 2014]
Dolosse ("knuckle bones" in Afrikaans) - large and complex concrete structures, weighing up to 20 tons, used interlocked in great numbers to protect harbour walls from the erosive force of ocean waves - in Granger Bay, Cape Town. Dolosse were developed in South Africa in the 1960s. [South Africa, 2014]