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{Table Mountain: Hulking like a gigatonne heavyweight sandstone bodyguard}

The bulk of Table Mountain hulking over you like a gigatonne heavyweight sandstone bodyguard; flanked by its three more diminutive henchmen, Devil’s Peak, Signal Hill and Lion’s Head; glimpses of Robben Island, flattish, brownish and desolate, a sort of un-beauty spot on the Cape’s pretty coastal complexion.

Complement these beacons with the sun kindly inclined to the north and a GPS in the pocket and your 3 dimensions are at least temporarily mastered.

{Google Earths eye view of Cape Town}

Now let’s ascend in a slow flying satellite and get a Google Earth’s eye view of the Cape Town metropolis and surrounding areas.

{Central Cape Town at foot of Table Mountain}

Pretty at the edge of Table Bay, the foot of Table Mountain and the top of the tail of the Cape Peninsula is the central city area of Cape Town – the hub of our asymmetrical wheel of localities – smallish, not more than a few square kilometres with a quite regular 90 degree street grid on the flatter expanse and going more oblique and bent as the hilly landscape asserts its influence.

{Focus on the centre of Cape Town}

Tear your attention from the cluster of grey and blocky medium-high-rise buildings whose bulk first captures it; obscuring the very significant amount of older original architecture and town layout that contributes most strongly to the mixed built identity of Cape Town city. Focus on the centre of town: depending on your inclination this could be the City Hall, Post Office, Police Station, Cape Town Railway Station, Company’s Gardens or even A. White’s Homoeopathic Pharmacy.

{Name and place other areas of Cape Town}

From this point the other areas can be named and placed. The bureaucratic partitioning of Cape Town involves one massive “Unicity” divided into 6 administrative areas:

    City of Cape Town
    City of Tygerberg
    Blaauwberg Municipality
    Oostenberg Municipality
    Helderberg Municipality
    South Peninsula Municipality

There you go; not exactly descriptive or conducive to the production of exciting and informative travel marketing material. But you now know more than many Capetonians.

{A better breakdown of Cape Town areas}

Here’s a better breakdown of the Cape Town regions, it will take about 2 years to fully sink in but it’s a start.

• Central City
• Atlantic Seaboard - incorporating Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Mouille Point, Green Point, Sea Point, Clifton, Camps Bay, Llandudno, Hout Bay, Kommetjie, Noordhoek and Scarborough
• False Bay or Eastern Seaboard - Muizenberg, Fishhoek, Simon’s Town, Cape Point
• Southern Suburbs/Central Peninsula - Woodstock, Mowbray, Observatory, Rondebosch, Newlands, Claremont, Kirstenbosch, Bishops Court, Constantia
• Cape Flats - Mitchells Plain, Cape Town International Airport, Khayelitsha, Gugulethu
• Northern and Eastern Suburbs - Vast suburban and industrial sprawl incorporating Durbanville, Brackenfell etc.
• West Coast - Milnerton, Table View, Melkbosstrand to Atlantis
• Somerset West/Helderberg
• Winelands - Not quite officially Cape Town but the famous Wineland area of Stellenbosch, and the lesser known areas of Paarl, Franschhoek, Wellington and Worcester lend depth and backbone to Cape Town and are within easy striking distance of anyone based in or around the city.