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During World War II, South Africa's ports and harbours, such as at Cape Town, Durban, and Simon's Town, were important strategic assets to the British Royal Navy. South Africa's top-secret Special Signals Service played a significant role in the early development and deployment of radio detection and ranging (radar) technology used in ...
She was presented with the Royal Geographical Society's Murchison Award in 1987 "for major contributions to the geography of South Africa and to the understanding of savannas." [8] Cole was elected as a member of the Geographical Club three years later, [1] and received an honorary life membership of the South African Geographical Society in 1993.
A map of the frontier districts showing Settler locations, c. 1835. The 1820 Settlers were several groups of British colonists from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, settled by the government of the United Kingdom and the Cape Colony authorities in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 1820.
The South African Geographical Journal was founded in 1917 and is the flagship journal of the Society of South African Geographers. The journal aims at using southern Africa as a region from, and through, which to communicate geographic knowledge and to engage with issues and themes relevant to the discipline. The journal is a forum for papers ...
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation; International Journal of Digital Earth; International Journal of Remote Sensing; ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Political Map of South Africa drawn 1897, reprint 1899 from "Impressions of South Africa" by James Bryce The enormous wealth of the mines, soon became irresistible for British imperialists . In 1895, a group of renegades led by Captain Leander Starr Jameson entered the ZAR with the intention of sparking an uprising on the Witwatersrand and ...
John A. Agnew, FBA (born Millom, England, August 29, 1949) is a prominent British-American political geographer. Agnew was educated at the Universities of Exeter and Liverpool in England and Ohio State in the United States .
The South African Historical Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the Southern African region. It was established in 1969 and is published on behalf of the South African Historical Society by the University of South Africa and published internationally by Taylor & Francis .