Ysterplaat is an old Northern Suburb of Cape Town and home to an Airforce Base, School's and a Museum; amongst many Churches and a nearby Synagogue. This Area is situated very near the City of Cape Town. It is very close to the neighbouring Suburbs of: 'Brooklyn, Paarden Island, Maitland, Milnerton and Century City.' It is not known precisely known when aviators started using Ysterplaat as a landing field. However in the Municipal Census of 1810, it is listed that on the 31st December 1810, Willem Caesar and a widow; ''Priem'' with her two children are residents at: 'd`Yzere Plaat'.

Kenhardt has been for a long time the most remote Settlement in the North-Western Cape, founded in 1868. Kenhardt became a Municipality only in, 1909. The Hartebees River, with its many sweet thorn trees, provides a green belt, irrigated by the Rooiberg Dam. Which was constructed to supply irrigation demands of Kenhardt, because Kenhardt is famous for there: 'Dorper' sheep, farming. Verneukpan; South of Kenhardt. Th is a vast dry pan on which Sir Malcolm Campbell tried to set a new World land-speed record, in 1929. The pan is estimated to be 57 kilometers long and 11 kilometers wide.