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Cape TownCape Point

Down the peninsula on Chapman’s Peak Drive. Tap a numbered dot and listen.

Narrated by The Chronicler 69 km · about 79 min · 15 stories

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Cape Town, Western Cape

    The Burgher Watch House

  2. 2
    Cape Town, Western Cape

    The Royal Navy in Simon's Town

  3. 3
    Cape Town, Western Cape

    The Legend of Van Hunks

  4. 4
    Cape Town, Western Cape

    The Khoikhoi-Dutch Wars

  5. 5
    Cape Town, Western Cape

    The Origins of Groot Constantia

  6. 6
    Cape Town, Western Cape

    Tokai's Silviculture Experiments

  7. 7
    Cape Town, Western Cape

    The Tragedy of SS Mendi

  8. 8
    Cape Town, Western Cape

    The Engineering of Chapman's Peak

  9. 9
    Cape Town, Western Cape

    Apartheid Forced Removals

  10. 10
    Simon's Town, Western Cape

    The 1795 British Invasion

  11. 11
    Simon's Town, Western Cape

    The SAS Assegaai Submarine

  12. 12
    Simon's Town, Western Cape

    The Ancient Geography of the Cape Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  13. 13
    Cape Town, Western Cape

    The Ancient Geography of the Cape Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  14. 14
    Cape Town, Western Cape

    The Ancient Geography of the Cape Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  15. 15
    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.