Addo Elephant National Park is the third-largest national park in South Africa. It’s not only home to the traditional Big Five (elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion and leopard) but the Big 7, which includes the Southern right whale and Great white shark in its marine environment.
In 1931, the park was started with only 2500 hectares of land. Today the Greater Addo National Park covers 180,000 hectares of land and a 120,000 hectare marine protected area (MPA). The park stretches from Darlington Dam in the Karoo in the north, across to the Zuurberg Mountains in the south, through the game viewing area and down to the coast at the Sundays River Mouth. From here, it stretches along the coast through the Alexandria Dune Fields and Woody Cape to Cannon Rocks with another small section near the Bushmans River Mouth.
The MPA extends 80 km eastward from the Coega harbour in Algoa Bay and includes the estuary of the Sundays River. The St. Croix and Bird Island groups fall within the MPA. The MPA includes the seabed and the water above it.
The map is to show the size of the Greater Addo Elephant National Park and where all the areas are, but may be slightly out of date.
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