Jacobsbaai

Jacobsbaai
Jacobsbaai
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Coordinates: 32°58′0″S 17°53′25″E / 32.96667°S 17.89028°E / -32.96667; 17.89028
Country	South Africa
Province	Western Cape
District	West Coast
Municipality	Saldanha Bay
Area [1]
• Total	3.43 km2 (1.32 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	416
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	0.5%
• Coloured	3.4%
• Indian/Asian	1.0%
• White	95.2%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Afrikaans	87.2%
• English	11.8%
• Other	1.0%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)

Jacobsbaai is a settlement in West Coast District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Jacobsbaai was founded as a small town on the farmland registered as 109 Jacobsbaai. The name is said to have come from the Frenchman Jacques Titius. He was a colonial trader in the West Coast. Tietiesbaai is also named after him, and Jacobsbaai has a street called Titius. Another explanation for the name is that the English king entrusted the piece of land to a local known as ‘Jacob', a chief of the Gonneman Hottentots.

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  Jacobsbaai advertising effort in 1993
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  Advertisement placed in 1995

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