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unusual facts about Hex River Mountains


Waaihoek

Waaihoek is the name of a peak at one of the vertices of a very large, remote, rugged and mountainous rural property called Zuurberg ("Sour Mountain"), located about 60km north-east of Cape Town, on the margin of a great sandstone massif known as the Hex River Mountains.


Edward Stuart Cardinal Dyke

On Matroosberg in the Hex River Mountains, he discovered a new species of "everlasting", flowers that in those days were generally included in the genus Helichrysum.


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