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Melkbosstrand Accommodation: Nearby towns with accommodation:
Bloubergstrand Accommodation | Bellville Accommodation | Welgemoed Accommodation
Milnerton Accommodation | Table View Accommodation | Durbanville Accommodation
Melkbosstrand (English: "Milk bush beach") is a coastal village and beach on the West Coast of South Africa, 35km north of Cape Town.
Named after the species of Euphorbiaceae bushes which grow on the dunes and give off a milky latex like substance, it is commonly referred to simply as Melkbos. The town and its 7km stretch of white sand beach is situated on the Atlantic coast with the Blouberg mountain to the east. The beach is popular with surfers.
Melkbosstrand falls under the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality, and its nearest neighbouring towns are Bloubergstrand and Atlantis.
The first, Koeberg nuclear power station, constructed with the help of the British and French some 6 km north of Melkbosstrand.
It is notable for being one of the landing points for the South Africa-Far East and South Atlantic/West Africa submarine cable systems.
The South Africa Far East cable is an optical fiber submarine communications cable linking Melkbosstrand, South Africa to Penang, Malaysia.
It was commissioned in 2002 and built by Tyco Submarine Systems of the USA with an initial capacity of 10 Gigabits per second, which is upgradeable to 130 Gigabits per second. It has four fiber strands, using Erbium-doped fiber amplifier repeaters and wavelength division multiplexing.
It has a total length of 13,104 kilometres, and is one of a pair of cables — SAT-3/WASC being the other — that provides high-speed digital links between Europe, West and Southern Africa and the Far East. Together with SAT-3/WASC, it also provides redundancy for other cables travelling through the Middle East.
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