South Africa Cape coast

Figure 2.2. Carbon and nitrogen isotope values of marine fauna from Belize, Ecuador (van der Merwe et al. 1993), and the southwestern Cape coast of South Africa (Sealy and van der Merwe 1986).

Bateman, M.D., Holmes, P.J., Carr, A.S., Horton, B.P. Jaiswal, M.K. (2004) Aeolianite and barrier dune construction spanning the last two glacial-interglacial cycles from the southern Cape coast, South Africa. Quatemaiy Science Reviews 23, 1681-1698. 

There is only a small part of South Africa presenting a Group Cfa climate, namely the Durban area near the Indian Ocean. The most humid place identified in South Africa is Cape Saint Lucia at the west coast north of Durban. Mean maximum temperatures can go up to 2TC at noon in February, combined with a mean maximum partial vapour pressure of almost 26 hPa. Mean minimum temperatures decrease to just below 18°C at night in July (see Figs. 4.11 and 4.12). 

In the centre of South Africa, the Group BS is dominating. Pretoria and Johannesburg are located there, while Cape Town is located in a Group Bsk climate. At the south coast. South Africa presents a Group Cfb climate (see Table 4.18). 

South Africa is not well endowed with areas of high agricultural potential. With a mean annual rainfall of 497 mm it is a semi-arid region with regular drought problems. There are three main rainfall areas the winter rainfall area in the Western Cape an all year round rainfall area along the Southern Cape coast and a summer rainfall area that covers the remainder of the country. 

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Similarly, rising levels of seizures in Africa reflect the fact that this continent, notably countries along the Gulf of Guinea and off the coast of Cape Verde, is increasingly being used as a transhipment point for cocaine from South America to markets in western Europe. 

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