SIMONTOWN, Cape town
Simon's Town (also widely but incorrectly referred to as Simonstown) and, in Afrikaans, Simonstad), Situated about 40 km outside of the city,is a village and a naval base in South Africa, near Cape Town. It is located on the shores of False Bay, on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula. For more than two centuries it has been an important naval base and harbour (first for the Royal Navy and now the South African Navy). The town is named after Simon van der Stel, an early governor of the Cape Colony.
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