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The Hottentots Holland Nature Reserve is a World Heritage Site with an area of 70,000 hectares from Elgin to north of Villiersdorp, between the Stellenbosch Mountains and the Groenland mountains. [2] The reserve functions as a conservation area for mountain fynbos, with about 1300 plant species, of which some are rare and endemic.
In 1992, the five-story patient tower opened, making Mission Hospital the largest medical center in south Orange County with a total of 274 beds. The Fetal Diagnostic Center and the Mission Rehabilitation Center opened. In 1993, the Children's Hospital at Mission, now known as CHOC at Mission, opened on the fifth floor of Mission Hospital. It ...
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The hospital has 334 beds [2] and is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. [3] The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to pediatric patients aged 0–21 [4] [5] throughout Orange County and the Southern California area.
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The Dutch and British settlers at the Cape built a rough pass called the Hottentots Holland Kloof Pass following the Gantouw route. The first recorded crossing was in 1664, [ 2 ] and by 1821 the pass was seeing 4500 ox-wagons per year crossing into the interior, but the route was so severe that more than 20% of them were damaged. [ 3 ]
The school is the major provider of secondary education in the area and is headmastered by Mr Danie Malan, that took the lead from former headmaster Mr Christiaan Klopper. With the post-war growth of the Hottentots Holland district, in 1962 a second High School (Afrikaans medium) was opened, which mainly served the Strand.
The Dutch called them Hottentots, a term that has now come to be regarded as pejorative. [21] In 1652, the Dutch East India Company's administrator Jan van Riebeeck established a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company some 50 km north of the cape in Table Bay on April 6, [22] and this eventually developed into Cape Town. Supplies of ...