EU: South Africa: Hout Bay behind Table Mountain. Photograph by George Washington Wilson, (1896)
1896 Cape Town, South Africa
Hout Bay with Table Mountain behind it, photographed in 1896. The bay, on the Cape Peninsula south of central Cape Town, was at the time a small fishing settlement set against the mountain's southern flank.
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