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7 unusual facts about Port Elizabeth


Adam Forster

Disillusioned by the slaughter and destruction, and by the plight of the refugees, he gave up his commission and emigrated to South Africa, where in 1874 he married Mary Emma Smith (born 10 November 1855 in Port Elizabeth), daughter of William Smith, the former and first mayor of Port Elizabeth.

Andy Malcolm

He moved to South Africa where he played for two seasons for Port Elizabeth FC and then the Greek Port Elizabeth side Apollen FC.

Jean Comaroff

Dr. Comaroff's parents returned to South Africa when she was ten months old, settling in the highly segregated industrial town of Port Elizabeth.

New Jersey Route 55

Route 55 begins at a signalized intersection with Route 47 in the Port Elizabeth section of Maurice River Township, Cumberland County, heading to the north as a two-lane undivided road through wooded areas.

Meanwhile, the portion between Route 47 in Port Elizabeth and the Garden State Parkway in Middle Township was canceled in 1975 due to the impact the highway would have on the surrounding environment.

Port Elizabeth

The remnants of the Spears were later reconstituted into the Southern Kings, also based in Port Elizabeth, which will join Super Rugby in 2013.

Soft coral nudibranch

This species has so far been found only off South Africa, from False Bay to Port Elizabeth, intertidally to 14 m.


Aloe gracilis

Aloe gracilis is naturally restricted to a relatively small area around (and just to the west of) the city of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Hans Grimm

Under pressure from his father he left university in 1895 and went into business, working for a German company in Great Britain (in Nottingham and London), and then in the British-ruled Cape Colony (in Port Elizabeth and East London), where he also rented a small farm.

Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij

The line's routes, beyond the home islands, included services to the ports of Singapore and Hong Kong, Shanghai, Manila, Saigon; the Australian ports of Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide; African ports such as Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay, Cape Town, Zanzibar, Mombasa, and the Indian Ocean ports of Réunion and Mauritius and Mahé.

KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic

The southern limit is at Cape St. Francis, east of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape Province, where the KwaZulu-Cape forests transition to the Knysna-Amatole montane forests.

Leah Berard

Berard is now focused on elevating herself within the international level; in December 2011, her first international appointment, she traveled to Port Elizabeth, South Africa to serve as an Assistant Referee for the IRB Sevens World Series.

Maritzburg F.C.

First, qualifying for the 1963 promotion play-offs only to miss promotion by a single point vis-a-vis Hellenic, and again in 1966, losing the southern play-off final against Westview Apollon from Port Elizabeth.

Molly Blackburn

On 28 December 1985, Molly and Brian Bishop (Di Bishop's husband) were killed in a car accident between Oudshoorn and Port Elizabeth.

Opel Astra 200t S

Both engine and chassis was produced in limited numbers (350 only) at Opel's Hungarian factory at Szentgotthárd and at Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Piet Malan

Malan's sole cap came at the age of 30 on 17 September 1949 against the All Blacks at St George's Park in Port Elizabeth, a game the Springboks went on to win 11-8 to take the series 4-0.

Robin Lee Graham

Graham spent nine months in South Africa, calling on ports along the southern edge of the continent including East London, South Africa, Port Elizabeth, Plettenberg Bay, Knysna, Stilbaai, Struisbaai, Gordon's Bay and finally Cape Town.

Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet

He toured with MCC teams twice: in 1887–88 he went with George Vernon to Australia and in 1895–96 he went with Lord Hawke's side to South Africa, where he acted as captain once against South Africa at Port Elizabeth in February 1896, winning the game largely as a result of George Lohmann's match return of 15/45 (7/38 and 8/7).

South African Class 39-000

The original locomotives had all originally been designed by General Motors Electro-Motive Division (GM-EMD) and had been built by General Motors South Africa (GMSA) in Port Elizabeth between 1974 and 1981.

South Jersey Transportation Authority

State Senator Jeff Van Drew has called for the SJTA to build the southern extension of Route 55 as an elevated toll road from its current southern terminus at Route 47 in Port Elizabeth to Cape May County.

St Boniface Church Germiston

Past well-known rectors of the parish have included Fr Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, who later became Dean of Johannesburg and was subsequently deported by the apartheid government in 1972, Fr Robin Roy Snyman who became Dean of Kimberley and later Vice-Provost of Port Elizabeth and Bishop David Albert Beetge who became the first bishop of The Highveld.

Stack interchange

The N2 connects Cape Town with Durban, and it serves the South African cities of Port Elizabeth, Plettenberg Bay, Margate, and the iSimangaliso Wetland Park.

Strelitzia juncea

This drought resistant Strelitzia occurs sparingly near Uitenhage, Patensie and just north of Port Elizabeth.

Vusi Pikoli

Vusumzi "Vusi" Pikoli (born 29 March 1958 in Port Elizabeth) is a South African advocate, and the recently fired head of South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority.

Yuichi Nishimura

On 2 July 2010, during the first quarterfinal game between Brazil and Netherlands at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, he sent off Felipe Melo of Brazil in the 73rd minute of the game.


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Andrew Geddes Bain

He was friendly with William Guybon Atherstone, who was also a keen geologist and fossil collector and who was present at the discovery of Paranthodon africanus Broom at the farm Dassieklip on the Bushmans River, about half-way between Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth.

Avontuur Railway

Class NG3 performed yard duties around Humewood Road Station in Port Elizabeth from 1939 to 1946

Calodendrum capense

It is native to a swath of the east side of the continent from the equatorial highlands of Kenya at its northern limit southwards through isolated mountains in Tanzania to both sides of Lake Malawi, the Mashonaland Plateau and Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe, and then along the lower slopes of the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa and in coastal forest from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town.

CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1883

At the time the Four-coupled Joy locomotives entered service in 1883, the Eastern System mainline from East London was open as far as Queenstown, the two Midland System mainlines from Port Elizabeth were open to Graaff Reinet and approaching Rosmead via Cradock, while the Western System mainline from Beaufort West was approaching De Aar.

Encephalartos horridus

Naturally occurring Eastern Cape Blue Cycads can only be found around Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage districts of Eastern Cape, South Africa, which has a warm climate year round, average annual rainfall in the range of 250mm (10 inches) to 600mm (25 inches) and summer temperatures up to 40 °C (104 °F).

Hitech

Hi-Tech Automotive is a low volume car builder and design house located in Port Elizabeth.

Holger Badstuber

Badstuber then started the next group game against Serbia on 18 June 2010 in Port Elizabeth at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.

Malay Camp, Kimberley

The Malay Camp in Kimberley, South Africa, with a history similar to Cape Town's District Six, Johannesburg's Sophiatown and Port Elizabeth's South End, was a cosmopolitan suburb originating in the early days of Kimberley's existence but subject to forced 'slums clearance' after the owner of the land (De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd) donated the area to the Kimberley Municipality in 1939.

Michael Coleman

Michael Gower Coleman (1939–2011), Roman Catholic bishop of Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

The club plays in the Varsity Sports Football challenge and the Port Elizabeth Football Association Premier Division.

Opel Rekord Series E

Until 1986 the Opel Rekord was assembled by General Motors's South African subsidiary in Port Elizabeth, but as a result of an an international sanctions regime General Motors were not permitted to invest further after 1986.

South African Class 19B 4-8-2

A couple were also allocated to Sydenham in Port Elizabeth and occasionally worked on the Grahamstown branch.