EU: South Africa: Cape Town and Table Mountain from Table Bay. Photograph by George Washington Wilson (1896)
1896 Cape Town, South Africa
Table Mountain rising above Cape Town, photographed from Table Bay by George Washington Wilson in 1896. The bay takes its name from the mountain, which has guided mariners toward the settlement since the seventeenth century.
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