Ysterplaat

Ysterplaat is a northern suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, around 10 km west-northwest of City Hall. It borders Paarden Eiland to the southwest, Brooklyn and Rugby to the west, Kensington to the south, and Century [City, Cape Town|Century City] to the northeast.
Ysterplaat, on the beach where Jan van Riebeeck landed on April 7, 1652, is well known for the local Air [Force Base Ysterplaat]. The base was used as the civilian Maitland Airfield as early as 1929, and officially changed its name from AFB Brooklyn to AFB Ysterplaat on April 1, 1949.
The Ysterplaat [Reformed Church] seceded on December 7, 1940, from its mother church, the Maitland Reformed Church, which then stretched to nearby Milnerton, Table View, and Bloubergstrand.