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1. False Bay

   False Bay (Afrikaans: Valsbaai) is a body of water in the Atlantic Ocean between the mountainous Cape Peninsula and the Hottentots Holland Mountains in the extreme south-west of South Africa. The mouth of the bay faces south and is demarcated by Cape Point to the west and Cape Hangklip to the east. The north side of the bay is the low-lying Cape Flats, and the east side is the foot of the Hottentots Holland Mountains to Cape Hangklip which is at nearly the same latitude as Cape Point. In plan the bay is approximately square, being roughly the same extent from north to south as east to west, with the southern side open to the ocean. The seabed slopes gradually down from north to south, and is mostly fairly flat unconsolidated sediments. Much of the bay is off the coast of the City of Cape Town, and it includes part of the Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area and the whole of the Helderberg Marine Protected Area. The name "False Bay" was applied at least three hundred years ago by sailors returning from the east who confused Cape Point and Cape Hangklip, which are somewhat similar in form. False Bay is at the extreme western end of the inshore Agulhas marine ecoregion which extends from Cape Point to the Mbashe river over the continental shelf, in the overlap zone between Cape Agulhas and Cape Point where the warm Agulhas Current and the cooler South Atlantic waters mix. The continental shelf is at its widest in this ecoregion, extending up to 240 km offshore on the Agulhas Bank, but is considerably narrower off False Bay. This ecoregion has the highest number of South African marine endemics, and is a breeding area for many species. The transition between the Agulhas ecoregion and the cooler Benguela ecoregion is at Cape Point, on the western boundary of False Bay. False Bay also contains South Africa's largest naval base at Simon's Town (historically a base for the Royal Navy), and small fishing harbours at Kalk Bay and Gordon's Bay.

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1. False Bay

   False Bay is a body of water defined by Cape Hangklip and the Cape Peninsula in the extreme South-West of South Africa.

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1. False Bay

   A bay in SW South Africa, near the Cape of Good Hope.

   False Bay is beautiful

   
   

   Submitted by JP03 on October 30, 2014  

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of false bay in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of false bay in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of false bay in a Sentence

1. Cape Towns municipality:

   Further supporting evidence of the absence of these large apex predators is the lack of any feeding or bite marks on whale carcasses the city has removed from False Bay this year, we do not know how their absence from False Bay would affect the ecosystem.

2. Charles Griffiths:

   It's amazing that we're still finding so many new species in heavily dived waters such as False Bay, right on our doorstep.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Bay
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=false bay