Algoa Bay
Algoa Bay is a bay in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It is on the east coast, 425 miles (683 kilometres) east of the Cape of Good Hope.
Algoa Bay is between the Cape Recife on its west side and Cape Padrone on the east side. The bay is up to 436 meters deep. The harbour city of Port Elizabeth is next to the bay. It is a new Coega deep water port facility.
The sauropod dinosaur Algoasaurus lived there during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.
Algoa Bay Media
Late 17th century map of Algoa Bay.
British Settlers landing in Algoa Bay in 1820. By Thomas Baines, 1853.
Gqeberha and vicinity on May 17, 2022, taken from the International Space Station
St. Croix Island seen from the nearest landfall at Hougham Park, just east of the Coega harbour development. From here the island is about 4 km to sea. Two disused stone bungalows, used by guano collectors and then by the University of Port Elizabeth for research purposes are visible.
Brenton Island seen from the same location as the previous image. The island is just less than Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). offshore.
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