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Dunoon's local weekly newspaper is the Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard, which was founded in 1871 in Sandbank by editor and proprietor William Inglis Sr. [97] [98] (The town once had three other newspapers, namely the Cowal Watchman (1876), [99] Dunoon Herald and Cowal Advertiser [100] and the Dunoon Telegraph.) [101]
Dunoon has no police stations; the nearest one is in Table View. In 2011, the population of Dunoon was 31,133 and the number of households was 11,496. [3] The main form of transport for Dunoon residents is the minibus taxi; the MyCiTi bus service opened a bus station to serve Dunoon on 1 March 2014. [4]
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1647 – The ship Nieuwe Haerlem is wrecked near what is today Bloubergstrand. This shipwreck ultimately leads to the establishment of a colony. [1] 1648 – Fort Zandenburgh built by the stranded sailors of the Nieuwe Haerlem. [2] 1651 – Jan van Riebeeck visits the Cape as part of a rescue mission to save stranded sailors. 1652
Some estimates extend their timeline into deep prehistory, to "10,000 BC", i.e., the early Holocene, when world population estimates range roughly between 1 and 10 million (with an uncertainty of up to an order of magnitude). [3] [4] Estimates for yet deeper prehistory, into the Paleolithic, are of a different nature.
Historical demography is the quantitative study of human population in the past. It is concerned with population size, with the three basic components of population change (fertility, mortality, and migration), and with population characteristics related to those components, such as marriage, socioeconomic status, and the configuration of families.
A children's choir run by Dunoon Grammar School music teacher Ian Davies, his wife Primary Teacher Mary and Mary's mother (and local piano teacher) Peggy Thompson rehearsed in the hall occasionally during the late 1980s/early 1990s. Innellan youth club was set up by local young people in the 1990s and ran for several years in the hall.