Mazeppa Bay
Mazeppa Bay is a town in Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Holiday resort on the Wild Coast, 175 km north-east of East London. The name Mazeppa comes from Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Mazeppa whose figure has a distinct presence in literature and graphic art especially in the period of Romanticism. With the publication of Byron’s poem Mazeppa in May 1819 it became common to name boats Mazeppa as a symbol of speed .
The schooner Mazeppa which took the surviving Voortrekkers of Louis Trichardt's party from Delagoa Bay to Port Natal in 1839.
Mazeppa Bay is known for its fishing and was featured in episode three of the first season of Extreme Fishing with Robson Green.
