Melville is a seaside resort village on the

South Coast South Coast is a name often given to coastal areas to the south of a geographical region or major metropolitan area. Geographical Australia *South Coast (New South Wales), the coast of New South Wales, Australia, south of Sydney * South Coast (Q ...

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...

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. Melville is a quiet and small seaside village regarded as something of an extension of

Port Shepstone Port Shepstone is a large town situated on the mouth of the Mzimkhulu River, the largest river on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast of South Africa. It is located halfway between Hibberdene and Margate and is positioned 120 km south of Durban. ...

with no shopping centre or public transport to speak of with very little to no developments in the area and has wild banana trees (hence it has a beach called Banana Beach) and abundant indigenous vegetation. Nearby shopping centres are in Port Shepstone and Hibberdene.

Geography

Melville lies exactly halfway between

, the economic hub of the South Coast and

Hibberdene Hibberdene is a small coastal town on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast in South Africa. It was named after C. Maxwell-Hibberd, the former postmaster-general of Natal. Hibberdene is located in the Hibiscus Coast region of the KZN South Coast and is ...

with it lying 12 km south-west of Hibberdene and 11 km north-east of Port Shepstone as well as 107 km south-west of the city of Durban. Furthermore it lies between the small seaside villages of Pumula and Sunwich Port, with Pumula to the north and Sunwich Port to the south. It lies on the

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to Hibberdene and Durban to the north and Port Shepstone to the south.

Tourism

Melville has two beaches, Melville Beach and Banana Beach. As a resort village, it consists of a few recreational areas such as the Banana Beach Holiday Resort, Illanga Resort & Caravan Park and the Lalanathi Caravan & Camping Park.{{Cite web, title=Lalanathi Caravan and Camping Park - KwaZulu-Natal, South Coast, Caravan, Camping self-catering accommodation, url=https://www.lalanathi.caravanparks.co.za/, access-date=2021-07-10, website=www.lalanathi.caravanparks.co.za Nearby and larger beaches within the Lower South Coast are in Hibberdene,

Ramsgate Ramsgate is a seaside resort, seaside town in the district of Thanet District, Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century. In 2001 it had a population of about 40,000. In 2011, according to t ...

, St Michael's-on-Sea,

Uvongo Uvongo is a seaside resort in the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast at the mouth of the Vungu River in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Uvongo is the largest upmarket residential area on the lower South Coast. The Vungu River has a waterfall that flows into ...

Margate Margate is a seaside resort, seaside town on the north coast of Kent in south-east England. The town is estimated to be 1.5 miles long, north-east of Canterbury and includes Cliftonville, Garlinge, Palm Bay, UK, Palm Bay and Westbrook, Kent, ...

and Marina Beach.

References

Populated coastal places in South Africa Tourist attractions in KwaZulu-Natal Populated places in the Ray Nkonyeni Local Municipality