Algoa Bay

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Algoa Bay is an inlet in South Africa in the east of the former Cape Colony, 20 miles wide and 425 miles east of the Cape of Good Hope. It is the site of Port Elizabeth.

The Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias [1] was the first to reach Algoa Bay in 1488, where he planted a wooden cross on a small island now called St Croix or Santa Cruz island. He gave the bay a name meaning "Bay of the Rock", which was changed in Portugal to "Bahia de Lagoa" or Bay of the Lagoon, and which eventually became Algoa Bay.

The metropolitan municipality of Nelson Mandela Bay, which includes Port Elizabeth, is located on the shore of Algoa Bay. Algoa Flight Centre, named after the bay, is located at Port Elizabeth Airport.

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Coordinates: 33°50′S 25°50′E

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