Saldanha

Saldanha¹ is located on Sandanha Bay, along the Atlantic Ocean in Western Cape Province, South Africa,¹ and has a population of 81 thousand.² It is the terminus of the Sishen-Sandanha railroad, which brings iron ore south from Northern Cape Province to this important port.³

External references

aerial view of Saldanha Bay and the ore port, Western Cape Province, Republic of South Africa/ Afrika/ Aforika, Afurika

Footnotes

1. Afrika in Afrikaans, Southern Ndbele, Xhosa, Zulu, Swazi, Northern and Southern Sotho and Tsonga; Aforika in Tswana; and Afurika in Venda.
2. World-gazetteer.com, accessed 1/12/2013.
3. It is listed as a world-important ore port in Alastair Cooper, ed., The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map.