Knysna (/ˈnaɪznə/; Afrikaans pronunciation: ['nɛɪsna]) is a town with 76,150 inhabitants (2019 mid-year estimates) in the Western Cape province of South...
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The Knysna turaco (Tauraco corythaix), or, in South Africa, Knysna loerie, is a large turaco, one of a group of African musophagidae birds. It is a resident...
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Knysna Municipality (Afrikaans: Knysna Munisipaliteit; Xhosa: uMasipala wase Knysna) is a local municipality within the Garden Route District Municipality...
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The Old Fort, also known as the Knysna Fort or Thomson's Folly, is a fort in Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa. The fort was built during the Second...
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Cape storm (2017) (redirect from Knysna fires)
fueled around 20 to 30 significant fires that swept through the town of Knysna and surrounding areas in the days after the storm. The fires killed seven...
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Zizeeria knysna, the dark grass blue or African grass blue, is a species of blue butterfly (Lycaenidae) found in Africa, on Cyprus and the Iberian Peninsula...
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The Knysna elephants were the relicts of once substantial herds of African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) in the Outeniqua/Tsitsikamma region of southernmost...
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The Knysna /ˈnaɪznə/ seahorse or Cape seahorse (Hippocampus capensis) is a species of fish in the family Syngnathidae. It is endemic to the south coast...
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also a renowned conservationist and owned the Featherbed Nature Reserve in Knysna, where he lived until the sale of the land and company in 2008. He was also...
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The Knysna–Amatole montane forests ecoregion, of the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, is in South Africa. It covers an Afromontane...
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The Knysna woodpecker (Campethera notata) is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is endemic to South Africa, where its natural habitats are subtropical...
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Featherbed Nature Reserve (category Knysna)
Reserve is a privately owned nature reserve on the Western Headland of the Knysna River Estuary on South Africa’s Garden Route. It was founded by South African...
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The Knysna River (in Afrikaans: Knysnarivier) is a river flowing in the Western Cape province in South Africa. It has its source in the Outeniqua Mountains...
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The Knysna dwarf chameleon (Bradypodion damaranum) is a species of dwarf chameleon in the Bradypodion ("slow footed") genus that is endemic to South Africa...
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The Knysna warbler or Knysna scrub warbler (Bradypterus sylvaticus) is a very shy and cryptic warbler, endemic to the coastal regions of South Africa....
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Knysna Fine Art is a commercial art gallery in Knysna, in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Knysna Fine Art was founded in 1998 by its owner...
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The Knysna banana frog (Afrixalus knysnae) is a species of frog in the family Hyperoliidae. It is endemic to South Africa. Its natural habitats are temperate...
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Bassiknysna (redirect from Knysna jansei)
Bassiknysna Kemal & Kocak, 2005 Species: B. jansei Binomial name Bassiknysna jansei (Bassi, 1999) Synonyms Knysna Bassi, 1999 Knysna jansei Bassi, 1999...
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Knysna Yacht Club, or simply the KYC, is a sailing club located in town of Knysna, on the Indian Ocean coast of South Africa. The Club was founded on...
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It is the first book in her series of four "forest novels", set in the Knysna forest. The other three "forest novels" are Fiela se Kind (Fiela’s Child)...
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The Holy Trinity Church is an Anglican Church in Belvidere, Knysna in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The church came to be when Robert Gray...
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Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and volunteered as a teacher at a school in Knysna, South Africa. They studied drama at the University of Bristol, but left...
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Arts Festival is an annual LGBTQ Pride carnival event and parade held in Knysna, a coastal township in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Events...
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Garden Route National Park (redirect from Knysna National Lake Area)
amalgamating the existing Tsitsikamma and Wilderness National Parks, the Knysna National Lake Area, and various other areas of state-owned land. The park...
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district: six by George, four by Mossel Bay, three each by Oudtshoorn and Knysna, two each by Hessequa and Bitou, and one by Kannaland. After the election...
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Portland Manor is set on 212 acres of land and is about 10 km northwest of Knysna. In 1772, the farm 'Melkhoutkraal' was granted to Stephanus Josias Terblanche...
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as Witsand, Heidelberg, Riversdale, Stilbaai, Albertinia, Gouritsmond, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay, Mossel Bay, Oudtshoorn, Great Brak River, Little Brak...
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Cyrtanthus obliquus (redirect from Knysna lily)
Cyrtanthus obliquus, the Knysna lily, is a species of flowering plant in the amaryllis family. It has spiralling leaves and large pendulous flowers. It...
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author best known for her four "Forest Novels", written in and around the Knysna Forest. Her books have been translated into fourteen languages, including...
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Crassula lactea (redirect from Knysna crassula)
Crassula lactea known as Taylor's Parches is a perennial flowering plant native to southern Africa. It blooms in the winter with white flowers. Wikimedia...
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