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unusual facts about Cloete's Pass


Cloete's Pass

The Langeberg mountain range separates the southern Cape coast from the Little Karoo.


Ashton, Idaho

The planned route for the new railroad was through Marysville, up Warm River Canyon into the forested Island Park country, and on over the Continental Divide at Rea’s Pass into what became West Yellowstone, Montana.

Brave Gladiators

Susanna Eises, Mammie Kasaona, Mangulukeni Hamata, Lovisa Mulunga, Queen Manga, Lena Noreses, Stacey Naris, Veweziwa Kotjipati, Esty Amukwaya, Tomalina Adams, Bonita, Eixas, Alberta Dawes, Mariana Gaebusi, Lorraine Jossob, Emmerencia Fredericks, Shirley Cloete, Juliana Skrywer and Novata Paulus.

Breyten Breytenbach

He is the brother of Jan Breytenbach, founder of the South African Special Forces, and Cloete Breytenbach, a widely published war correspondent.

Burchell's Redfin

Two populations are known with certainty, one in the Moeras River at Barrydale and one at the Tradouw River at Tradouw's Pass.

Cloete

It adopted his name following his death in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915.

Craigieburn Range

The Craigieburn Range of mountains is located on the south banks of the Waimakariri River, south of Arthur's Pass and west of State Highway 73.

Devil's Pass

Five college students set off to find out what happened to the nine skiers who mysteriously died in the Dyatlov Pass incident.

Marine geology of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay

Cape Blue Rock, a dense Hornfels, was formed from the Malmesbury series rock by the Stellenbosch pluton, and was quarried as a building aggregate near Sir Lowry's Pass.

Monty's Pass

Monty's Pass was the winner of the 2003 Grand National at Aintree, Liverpool, when ridden by Barry Geraghty, trained by Jimmy Mangan and running in the colours of the Dee Racing Syndicate, a group of owners based in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, and led by Blackpool born bingo hall owner Mike Futter.

Monty's Pass finished fourth in the defence of his title in 2004 and completed the course again in 2005 before being retired to his trainer's yard at Conna in County Cork.

The horse was lightly raced over hurdles in preparation for the 2003 Grand National in order to protect his handicap and was the subject of a huge gamble by the public on the day of the race, which saw his price tumble from 40/1 to 16/1 at the off.

NZR ED class

A further seven locomotives were assembled at the Hutt Workshops and two at Addington Workshops for use on the Otira - Arthur's Pass section of the Midland Line.

NZR KB class

Following the success of the K class in the North Island, there was a need for similar locomotives to operate the Midland Line, primarily between Springfield and Arthur's Pass.

Pinotage

The first wine was made in 1941 at Elsenburg, with the first commercial plantings at Myrtle Grove near Sir Lowry's Pass.

Samson Dyer

Arrived in Cape Town, he was employed by the firm Cloete, Reitz and Anderson as a harpooner for the whaling industry in False Bay.

Sir Lowry's Pass

The new pass was opened on 6 July 1830, and named after Lowry Cole, the Governor of the Cape Colony at the time.

Starting in 1828, a new pass was constructed on the current route, about 2 km to the south of the Hottentots Holland Kloof, by the engineer Charles Michell using convict labour.

South African Class 19C 4-8-2

From here they worked on branchlines such as those from Cape Town to Saldanha, along the long branchline via Klawer to Bitterfontein, and across Sir Lowry's Pass to Caledon and Protem in the Overberg.

Van Reenen

It is located on the N3 national road at the top of Van Reenen's Pass on the Great Escarpment of the Drakensberg.

William Broderick Cloete

Cloete is also noted for his belief in the legend of the Lost Nigger Gold Mine; he offered Lock Campbell, a Texan man, expenses of $10,000 if he would undertake an expedition to find it.

World Leisure Holidays v Georges

It was heard in the Witwatersrand Local Division by Cloete J, Blieden J and Malan J on 14 February, 2002, with judgment handed down on 26 February.


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