Bantry Bay, Cape Town

About

Bantry Bay is an affluent suburb of Cape Town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is situated on the slopes of Lion's Head, in the Atlantic Seaboard region of the city, overlooking a rocky coastline. Its neighboring suburbs are Sea Point and Clifton. It was originally called Botany Bay after a botanical garden that was planted here for the cultivation of medicinal herbs. The name was changed during the First World War.

It is overlooked by Lion's Head, which is an eroded outlier of sandstone. There is a plaque on the seashore that commemorates a visit by Charles Darwin, who made important geological observations here relating to the nature and origin of granite.