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South-Africa-Western-Cape-Stellenbosch-Planke...
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Not much more than a muddy stream (though quite pretty) when we looked.
It has been labelled by researcher Jo Barnes as a serious health hazard and a 'slow motion' environmental disaster. The river's coliform bacteria count is over 34 million a 100ml - way in excess of 2000 a 100ml, which is considered a health risk.
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(Earth Views): South Africa Western Cape Stellenbosch Plankenbrug River slow flowing and wooden bridge 1 DHD.jpg
D=2005-10-10 [Oct 10, 2005]; S=2MB, 2592x1944; T=JPEG image [MIME:image/jpeg];
L=Estd:g:20.0E,32.5S{+/-2.5,1.5}Rating: 62/100.
Key: D= file date of exhibit; S= size in bytes, XxY pixels, etc; T= type of exhibit; L= location/time or viewpoint of exhibit (if known).
- south africa = .za, RSA, Republic of South Africa, Südafrika, África del Sur, Afrique du Sud, 南非 = Southernmost African country. See the official government site. See ZA Pix for selected images of South Africa. See The Balancing Act for telecoms and Internet news from Africa. Adjective "South African".
- south africa western cape = Wes-Kaap, Intshona Koloni = Province in south-west of SA, with capital Cape Town. Before the 1910 Union of South Africa this was the Cape Colony, and subsequently the Western Cape was part of what was then Cape Province. Similar in land area to England. The 2001 census recorded ~4,500,000 people in 1,200,000 households.
- south africa western cape stellenbosch = Second-oldest town in South Africa. Regarded as the wine capital of SA with over one hundred cellars in the area, the vineyards were established by the Dutch governor of the Cape, Simon van der Stel, who arrived in 1679, and modestly named the town after himself! The town sports Cape Dutch architecture, the world's only Afrikaans university (Maties), and roads lined with old oak trees and bordered with open drainage culverts/ditches. Visit the town's official Web site.
About This Category
Places and sights from around the Earth, catalogued by location, including views and scenery natural and artificial, rural and urban, ugly and beautiful.
This gives a feel of what particular parts of the world are like.
See also Aloha Earth to zoom in on on a map of the Earth to locate exhibits, and our travel section.
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