The
Cape Peninsula is a
peninsula that juts out into the
Atlantic Ocean at the south-western extremity of the
African continent. At its tip is the
Cape of Good Hope. The peninsula forms the west side of False Bay. The two main rock formations are the late-
Precambrian Malmesbury group (metamorphic rock) and the Peninsula granite, a huge batholith that was intruded into the Malmesbury Group about 630 million years ago.