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The reception area includes the West Coast as far as Alexander Bay and parts of the Northern Cape and even as far the Eastern Cape.

Aloe dichotoma

Aloe dichotoma, also known as quiver tree or kokerboom, is a species of aloe indigenous to Southern Africa, specifically in the Northern Cape region of South Africa, and parts of Southern Namibia.

Banksia ashbyi subsp. boreoscaia

It is the lignotuberous form of the species, and occurs along the north-west coast of Western Australia, between Carnarvon and North West Cape.

Big Horn, Wyoming

Queen Elizabeth II stayed in Big Horn in October 1984 during a visit with her close friends, Lord and Lady Carnarvon, (née Jeanne Wallop) at Senator and Mrs. Wallop's Canyon Ranch.

Cape Police Memorial

The Cape Police Memorial is a South African national heritage site located in Kimberley in the Northern Cape province.

Cape Province

The Cape Province was broken up into three smaller provinces: the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape.

Carnarvon terms

The Carnarvon terms were a set of proposals ordered by the British colonial secretary Lord Carnarvon in 1874 to settle the dispute between British Columbia and Canada over the construction of the transcontinental railroad and the Vancouver Island railroad and train bridge.

Carnarvon, Northern Cape

The name was changed in 1874 in honour of the British Colonial Secretary, Lord Carnarvon (1831–1890), whose son, also Lord Carnarvon, was the famous Egyptologist.

Chelypus

Chelypus barberi Purcell 1902 (=Chelypus macronyx Hewitt 1919) - Northern Cape, Namibia, Botswana, Angola, Zimbabwe and Zambia - "On some South African Arachnida belonging to the orders of Scorpions, Pedipalpi and Solifugae".

hirsti Hewitt 1915 (=Chelypus kalaharicus Lawrence, 1949)(=Chelypus wuehlischi Roewer 1941) - Northern Cape, Gobabis, Namibia and Botswana

Common flat lizard

P. i. inopinus can be found in the foothills of Blouberg, Northern Cape in South Africa.

Cyclone Steve

The Gascoyne River at Carnarvon reached its highest level since 1960.

Elsie Vaalbooi

Elsie Vaalbooi (born c. 1901) of Rietfontein in the Northern Cape was a South African woman who was a member of the ǂKhomani (Nǁnǂe) San or Bushmen and one of the last speakers of the Nǁng language.

Galeshewe Stadium

Galeshewe Stadium, formerly known as King George Sports Ground, is a multi-use stadium in the Galeshewe suburb of Kimberley, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

Government of the Northern Cape

The Northern Cape province of South Africa is governed in a parliamentary system in which the people elect the provincial legislature and the legislature, in turn, elects the Premier as head of the executive.

Hazel Jenkins

In 2009, following the landslide victory of the ruling African National Congress in the general election, Jenkins was announced as the party's nominee for Premier of the Northern Cape, in succession to Dipuo Peters.

Hyksos

One text, the Carnarvon Tablet I, relates the misgivings of the Theban ruler’s council of advisors when Kamose proposed moving against the Hyksos, whom he claimed were a humiliating stain upon the holy land of Egypt.

Kagisano-Molopo Local Municipality

It borders on the Kgalagadi District of the Republic of Botswana to the north, Moshaweng Local Municipality in the Northern Cape province to the south-west, Greater Taung Local Municipality to the south, Naledi Local Municipality to the south-east, and Ratlou Local Municipality to the east.

Karoo Thrush

It occurs in South Africa (Little Namaqualand, Karoo and Northern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and part of the North West Province).

Kimberley Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Kimberley Seventh-day Adventist Church is a provincial heritage site in Kimberley in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

Northern Cape Division

The Northern Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa (formerly named the Northern Cape High Court and the Northern Cape Provincial Division, and commonly known as the Kimberley High Court) is a superior court of law with general jurisdiction over the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

Pilbara Regiment

It is responsible for an area of 1.3 million square kilometres from Port Hedland to Carnarvon in Western Australia, and from the coast to the border with the Northern Territory; being approximately one-sixth of the total Australia mass.

Psychotria capensis

Psychotria capensis (Eckl.) Vatke is a Southern African evergreen shrub or small tree occurring along the east coast from Knysna through the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

SAFA Second Division

Currently it features 144 teams in total, divided into 9 divisions, borderly decided by the 9 geo-political provinces of South Africa: Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu Natal, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West.

Sandy Arbuthnot

Colonel Sir Aubrey Herbert (1880–1923; twice offered the throne of Albania, 2nd son of 4th Earl of Carnarvon), but later also reflected T.E. Lawrence.

Shelley Gare

Gare was born Helen Shelley Gare in Carnarvon, Western Australia in 1952, the fourth and youngest child of public servant Frank Ellis Gare (Commissioner for Native Welfare for the State of Western Australia) and artist and novelist Nene Gare.

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 10th Baronet

In 1925, after graduating from Woolwich, Williams-Wynn was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery; He served in the Royal Horse Artillery, was an Instructor at the Equitation School, Weedon, Adjutant of the 61st (Carnarvon and Denbigh Yeomanry) Medium Regiment of the Royal Artillery (Territorial Army), from 1936 to 1940, and was promoted Major in 1940, having been appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1937.

Sol Plaatje Museum

The Sol Plaatje Museum and Library is in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa, in a house where Solomon T. Plaatje lived during his last years, in Malay Camp, No 32 Angel Street.

Thomas Upington

The town of Upington in the Northern Cape is named after him, as was the short-lived Boer republic of Upingtonia.

Trams in Kimberley, Northern Cape

The Kimberley tramway network formed part of the public transport system in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa, for roughly 60 years until the late 1940s.

Van der Westhuizen

The well known van der Westhuizen street in the Cape is named after the van der Westhuizen family (Other significant streetnames also exist in the Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng ('Transvaal'), Chatham in the United Kingdom and in Alberta Canada).

Yinggarda language

Yinggarda country is around Carnarvon, on the central western coast of Western Australia, and extends inland to near Gascoyne Junction and south to around the mouth of the Wooramel River.


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