South Africa

South Africa contributes a wine region that has been making wine since 1659 and a prison island that became a museum, and the atlas carries both without reconciling them. Cape Town enters on landscape, Johannesburg on the gold reef that made it, and the Cape winelands on two towns whose Huguenot and Dutch plans are still legible in the street lines. Hermanus is here for a single verifiable thing: southern right whales calve close enough inshore to be watched from the cliff path.