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The South African postal code system was previously used in Namibia, then "South West Africa", including the enclave of Walvis Bay, which remained part of South Africa until 1994. It was allocated the number range 9000–9299. [6] Following independence, use of the South African postal code system was discontinued. [7]
This is a list of suburbs in the City of Cape Town, South Africa, which includes the city of Cape Town, as well as its surrounding suburbs and exurbs. [1] Each section on this page separates a specific region of Cape Town, in alphabetical order. Within each region, there is a table, with its respective suburbs listed in alphabetical order.
Qonce, formerly King William's Town, [3] is a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa along the banks of the Buffalo River. The town is about 60 kilometres (37 mi) northwest of the Indian Ocean port of East London. It has a population of around 35,000 inhabitants and forms part of the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality.
The Royal Observatory in Observatory, Cape Town, houses the McClean Telescope. The building was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and was completed in 1897. The original buildings now serve as the headquarters of the South African Astronomical Observatory , with an on-site museum exhibiting various historic instruments and telescopes.
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The observatory operates from the campus of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope that was established in 1820 [9] in the suburb of Observatory, Cape Town. The major observing facilities are, however, located near the town of Sutherland some 370 kilometres (230 mi) [2] from Cape Town. Sutherland was chosen because of its reliably clear and ...
Cape Town's Southern Suburbs lie to the Southeast of the slopes of Table Mountain within rich valleys and vast plains reaching from just south of the Table Bay industrial neighbourhoods in the north to the False Bay coastal suburbs and the Cape Peninsula cliffs to the south, and are crossed North-South by the M3 and M5 freeways. In general ...
The Cape catalogue of 1159 stars, deduced from observations at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, 1856–1861, reduced to the epoch 1860. Cape Town: S Solomon. Stone, Edward James; Maclear, Thomas (1871). Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope in the year 1856. S Solomon. Warner, Brian (1979).