Waterfront Historic Walk
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These stories have meant different things to different people; from the indigenous Khoi, Dutch settlers, British colonists, the enslaved and imprisoned, to free South
Africans. The 1½ hour Waterfront Historic Walk is an entertaining way to get your bearings around the V&A Waterfront and pick up to some fascinating information about the role and
development of the harbour since early Dutch times through the Victorian era and into modern day South.
Africans. The 1½ hour Waterfront Historic Walk is an entertaining way to get your bearings around the V&A Waterfront and pick up to some fascinating information about the role and
development of the harbour since early Dutch times through the Victorian era and into modern day South.
- Duration: 2 hour(s)
- Location: Victoria and Alfred Waterfront
- Chavonnes Battery (1720s)
- Robinson Dry Dock (1882)
- Alfred Basin (1860-1870), Clocktower
- Time Ball Tower (1894)
- Plaque commemorating tipping of first bucket by Prince Alfred (1860)
- Robben Island embarkation centre
- Victoria Basin (1905)
- Pierhead and tragedy of the Mendi (1917)
- Nelson Mandela Gateway
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