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The Tsitsikamma National Park is a protected area on the Garden Route, Western Cape and Eastern Cape, South Africa. It is a coastal reserve well known for its indigenous forests, dramatic coastline, and the Otter Trail. On 6 March 2009 it was amalgamated with the Wilderness National Park and various other areas of land to form the Garden Route ...
The Newlands Forest, with endangered indigenous Peninsula Granite Fynbos and large Silvertree in the background (in 2011). Since 1994, South Africa has made significant efforts to promote forest conservation and sustainable forestry practices. The National Forest Act was enacted in 1998 to provide a legal framework for the sustainable ...
Name of forest Type Province Note Andrews Forest: State: Eastern Cape: Blue Lily's Bush Forest: Reserve: Eastern Cape: Dhlinza Forest: KwaZulu-Natal: Entumeni Forest
East London (Xhosa: eMonti; Afrikaans: Oos-Londen) is a city on the southeastern coast of South Africa, [3] in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape Province. The city lies on the Indian Ocean coast, largely between the Buffalo River and the Nahoon River, and hosts the country's only river port.
A map showing South Africa's cities, main towns, selected villages, rivers, and its highest peak. This is a list of rivers in South Africa. It is quite common to find the Afrikaans word -rivier as part of the name. Another common suffix is "-kamma", from the Khoisan term for "river" [1] (often tautologically the English term "river" is added to ...
The earliest known written reference to 'Hogsback' was found in the journal of the painter Thomas Baines, who passed the 'Hogs Back' while on his travels deeper inside South Africa in 1848. Besides the 'Hogsback', the highest peak in the area is the 1 954 m Gaika's Kop. The nearby Xhosa tribes called the surrounding area Qabimbola (meaning 'red ...
Located on the banks of the Klein River, Stanford is known to host over 200 different bird species of which 30 are endemic to South Africa. Some of the attractions of Stanford including the over 100-years-old Stanford Hotel, river cruises on the Klein River, bird watching, kayaking and beer- and wine tasting at the local wine estates. [5]
Margate, South Africa. Margate is a coastal resort town in the KwaZulu-Natal province, about 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) south-west of Port Shepstone and 127 kilometres (78.9 mi) south-west of Durban. The river which flows into the sea at Margate is called "Nkhongweni" (place of entreaty) as the original inhabitants of the area were reputed to be ...