Mossel Bay
Mossel Bay is a small harbour town situated on the Garden Route in the Western Cape. A favourite coastal and holiday destination, it has over the years developed into a town of unhurried hospitality, complementing the natural beauty and rich cultural history of the District of Eden.Photo: Dellex, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: landagent, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Post Office Tree
Photo: Lugerda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Post Office Tree is a famous milkwood tree in Mossel Bay, South Africa that was used by early Portuguese explorers as a post office.
Cape St. Blaize Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Russell James Smith, CC BY 2.0.
Cape St. Blaize Lighthouse is a lighthouse near Mossel Bay, South Africa.
Mossel Bay
- Type: Town with 60,000 residents
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Mossel Bay, Garden Route District Municipality, Garden Route, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-34.1832° or 34° 10' 60" southLongitude
22.1536° or 22° 9' 13" eastPopulation
60,000Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)IATA airport code
MZYUnited Nations Location Code
ZA MZYOpen Location Code
4GQ4R583+PFOpenStreetMap ID
node 2504777790OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
973709Wikidata ID
Q995615Mossel Bay Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Aliwal-Suid
- Afrikaans: Mossel Bay
- Afrikaans: Mosselbaai
- Arabic: خليج موسيل
- Armenian: Մոսսել Բեյ
- Asturian: Mossel Bay
- Bulgarian: Моссел Бай
- Bulgarian: Мосъл Бей
- Cebuano: Mossel Bay (kapital sa munisipyo)
- Cebuano: Mossel Bay
- Chinese: 莫塞尔贝
- Chinese: 莫塞爾灣
- Chinese: 莫塞爾貝
- Czech: Mossel Bay
- Danish: Mossel Bay
- Dutch: Mosselbaai
- Dutch: Mosselbay
- Egyptian Arabic: خليج موسيل
- Esperanto: Mossel Bay
- Estonian: Mossel Bay
- French: Mossel Bay
- German: Aliwal South
- German: Mossel Bay
- German: Mosselbaai
- Hebrew: מוסל ביי
- Indonesian: Teluk Mossel
- Italian: Mossel Bay
- Italian: Mosselbaai
- Italian: Mosselbaii
- Japanese: モッセル・ベイ港
- Japanese: モッセル湾
- Japanese: モーセル・ベイ
- Latin: Mossel Bay
- Latin: Sinus Mitilorum
- Macedonian: Моселбај
- Macedonian: Мосел беј
- Malagasy: Mossel Bay
- Marathi: मॉसेल बे
- Norwegian Bokmål: Mossel Bay
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Mossel Flēot
- Pedi: Mossel Bay
- Polish: Mossel Bay
- Portuguese: Mossel Bay
- Romanian: Mosselbaai
- Russian: Mosselbaai
- Russian: Моссел-Бей
- Russian: Моссел
- Russian: Моссел Бей
- Russian: Моссел Бэй
- Russian: Моссел бай
- Russian: Мосселбай
- Slovak: Mossel Bay
- Slovenian: Mossel Bay
- Spanish: Mosselbaai
- Swahili: Mossel Bay
- Swedish: Mossel Bay
- Ukrainian: Ісазане
- Ukrainian: Ісінйока
- Ukrainian: Бей-В'ю
- Ukrainian: Боплаас
- Ukrainian: Гейдеранд
- Ukrainian: Де-Нова
- Ukrainian: Деллвілле-Парк
- Ukrainian: Ді-Бакке
- Ukrainian: Ді-Воор-Бааі
- Ukrainian: КваНокутула
- Ukrainian: Кванонкваба
- Ukrainian: Лінксайд
- Ukrainian: Моссел-Бей
- Ukrainian: Ну-Давн
- Ukrainian: Нью-Горізонс
- Ukrainian: Фаірв'ю
- Urdu: موسل بے
- Zulu: IMossel Bay
Other Places Named Mossel Bay
In the Area
Mossel Bay is situated close to the neighbourhood Hamardt Place and the suburb Da Nova.
- Fignbosch ParkNeighbourhood
- New SunnysideSuburb
- Mossel Bay Golf EstateSuburb
- HeiderandSuburb, 3½ km west
- D’AlmeidaSuburb, 5 km west
- DiasstrandSuburb, 5 km northwest
Popular Destinations in Garden Route
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Mossel Bay. Photo: landagent, CC BY-SA 3.0.