Maclear, officially Nqanqarhu, is a small town situated in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, near the Mooi River (a tributary of the Tsitsa River)...
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Maclear's Beacon is a triangulation station used in Maclear's arc measurement for Earth's circumference determination. The beacon is situated on top of...
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This is a list of municipalities of South Africa. The largest metropolitan areas are governed by metropolitan municipalities, while the rest of the country...
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crater Maclear on the Moon is named after him; as is Maclear's Beacon on Table Mountain; the South African town, Maclear, Eastern Cape; and Cape Maclear in...
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Table Mountain (redirect from Table Mountain (South Africa))
eastern end of the plateau and is marked by Maclear's Beacon, a stone cairn built in 1865 by Sir Thomas Maclear for trigonometrical survey. It is 1,086 metres...
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Maclear may refer to: Sir Thomas Maclear (1794–1879), Irish-born South African astronomer Michael Maclear (1929-2018), Anglo-Canadian journalist, documentary...
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In South Africa, vehicle registration plates, known as number plates, are issued by the Department of Transport in each of its provinces. Each province...
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Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, and lies 80 km south-west of Maclear and 65 km south-east of Barkly East on the R56 road. Originally...
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The R396 is a Regional Route in South Africa that connects the N2 north of Mthatha to Lady Frere via Maclear, Rhodes, Barkly East, and Indwe. R306 (Eastern...
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South Africa's cities and main towns...
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The R56 is a provincial route in South Africa that connects Middelburg with Pietermaritzburg via Molteno, Maclear and Kokstad. It is co-signed with the...
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Maclear Hospital is a provincial government funded hospital for the Elundini Local Municipality area in Maclear, Eastern Cape in South Africa. Eastern...
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the South African coast 6 June 1488 - Bartolomeu Dias erects the second padrão (stone cross), that's north-east of St. Philip, in Cape Maclear, south of...
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named after Sir Thomas Maclear, Her Majesty's astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), from 1833 to 1870. By...
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is the great-great-grand-nephew of South African astronomer Sir Thomas Maclear. Born in London, UK in 1929, Maclear moved to Canada in 1954 and joined...
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in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Town at the southern foot of the Drakensberg, 18 km south-west of Maclear. It developed from a mission station...
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This is a list of regional routes in South Africa. Route numbers with three digits starting with "R1" are given to sections of road that were formerly...
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centre and towards Nsanakang in the south. British forces moving towards Garua under the command of Colonel MacLear were ordered to push to the German...
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that happened during 1906 in South Africa. Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Walter Hely-Hutchinson. Governor...
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locations in South Africa have been renamed. The following article covers the name changes in South Africa by province since the 1994 South African general...
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Tsitsa River (category Use South African English from July 2024)
relatively small dams in the Tsitsa River basin. The Maclear Dam on the Mooi River supplies water to Maclear town and the Ugie Dam on the Wildebeest River supplies...
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Hope was awarded the Royal Medal on two occasions; the first to Thomas Maclear in 1869 for measurement of an arc of the meridian at the Cape of Good Hope...
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The magistrates' courts are the lowest level of the court system in South Africa. They are the courts of first instance for most criminal cases except...
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District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, 69 km north-north-east of Maclear. Founded in 1882, Mount Fletcher takes its name from...
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Eastern Cape (redirect from Eastern Cape, South Africa)
iMpuma-Kapa; Afrikaans: Oos-Kaap [ˈuəs.kɑːp]) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are East London and...
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northern. In 1838, Thomas Maclear, who was Astronomer Royal at the Cape, repeated the measurements over a longer baseline (Maclear's arc measurement) and ultimately...
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The Kiffness (category South African musicians)
the new names of Port Elizabeth, King William's Town, and Maclear after the South African government changed them. During the 2022 Russian invasion of...
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This is a list of libraries in South Africa. National Library of South Africa South African Library for the Blind SAAO Library Adelaide Tambo Public Library...
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closed or dismantled railway lines in South Africa since 1910. The list is primarily intended to document South African Railways (government) or private lines...
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The law of agency in South Africa regulates the performance of a juristic act on behalf or in the name of one person ("the principal") by another ("the...
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