
Hout means 'wood', and the Bay was originally full of trees that were used for timber. Large forested areas remain, higher up towards the slopes of Table Mountain.
This picture is taken from the Chapman's Peak ridge of mountains, that rise, sheer, out of the water. Here, Cape Granite is overlain by basal strata. This is an unusual geological phenomenon, and can be found on the other side of the Atlantic, along the South American coast. When you think of Rio it is also a city with sheer mountains rising from the sea. Broad belts of rocks in Africa and South America are of the same type. When the end of the continents are joined, these broad belts match up.
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/pangaea/evidence.html:
The bulge of Africa fits the shape of the coast of North America while Brazil fits along the coast of Africa beneath the bulge.
Once Rio, perhaps, was right here.
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