Down the peninsula on Chapman’s Peak Drive. Tap a numbered dot and listen.
Narrated by The Chronicler69 km · about 79 min · 15 stories
The stories
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
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Cape Town, Western Cape
The Burgher Watch House
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Cape Town, Western Cape
The Royal Navy in Simon's Town
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Cape Town, Western Cape
The Legend of Van Hunks
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Cape Town, Western Cape
The Khoikhoi-Dutch Wars
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Cape Town, Western Cape
The Origins of Groot Constantia
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Cape Town, Western Cape
Tokai's Silviculture Experiments
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Cape Town, Western Cape
The Tragedy of SS Mendi
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Cape Town, Western Cape
The Engineering of Chapman's Peak
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Cape Town, Western Cape
Apartheid Forced Removals
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Simon's Town, Western Cape
The 1795 British Invasion
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Simon's Town, Western Cape
The SAS Assegaai Submarine
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Simon's Town, Western Cape
The Ancient Geography of the Cape Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3
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Cape Town, Western Cape
The Ancient Geography of the Cape Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3
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Cape Town, Western Cape
The Ancient Geography of the Cape Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3
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Cape Town, Western Cape
The Cape Floral Kingdom
Where the stories come from
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.