EU: South Africa: Cape Town and Table Mountain from Table Bay (1896)
1896 Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town and Table Mountain as seen from Table Bay, photographed in 1896. The mountain's flat-topped silhouette has served as a landmark for ships entering the bay since the earliest European voyages to the Cape.
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