Gansbaai
Sign in to savethumb|280px|Great white shark cage diving Gansbaai (Dutch/Afrikaans for "bay of geese," sometimes referred to as Gans Bay) is a fishing town and tourist destination in the Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa. It is known for its dense population of great white sharks and as a whale watching location.
Key facts
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- Gansbaai
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- Danger Point lighthouse, Gansbaai.jpg
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- Danger Point lighthouse near Gansbaai
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- South Africa Western Cape#South Africa
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- Country
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- South Africa
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- Province
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- Western Cape
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- District
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- Overberg
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- Municipality
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- Overstrand
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- Main Place
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- Established
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- Councillor
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- 12.44
- Settlement.population_total
- 11598
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- 2011
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- History
- Dyer Island, Geyser Rock and Shark Alley
- Government
- Demographics
- Education
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thumb|280px|Great white shark cage diving Gansbaai (Dutch/Afrikaans for "bay of geese," sometimes referred to as Gans Bay) is a fishing town and tourist destination in the Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa. It is known for its dense population of great white sharks and as a whale watching location.
The main tourist attraction in Gansbaai since approximately 1995 has been cage diving with great white sharks. It is said that after Kruger National Park, the great white sharks attract some of the highest numbers of tourists to South Africa for any single activity.