Saldanha Bay

Saldanha Bay offers a broad, sheltered anchorage on the coast north of the Cape of Good Hope. Khoikhoi communities lived and grazed livestock in the surrounding country, where visiting ships sought provisions. In 1601 the Dutch navigator Joris van Spilbergen applied the name Saldanha to this bay, confusing it with the anchorage farther south that Portuguese sailors had previously called by that name. The older Saldanha anchorage became known as Table Bay.