The first wine was made in 1941 at Elsenburg, with the first commercial plantings at Myrtle Grove near 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.
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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.
Sir | Sir Walter Scott | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Sir Robert Peel | Khyber Pass | mountain pass | Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet | Elephant Pass | Sir Raylton Dixon | Sir Harold Hillier Gardens | Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet | Joe Pass | Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet | Brenner Pass | Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet | Simplon Pass | Malcolm Lowry | Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet | Mike Lowry | White Pass and Yukon Route | Stampede Pass | Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet | Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland | Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever | Sir Nigel | Sir John D'Oyly, 1st Baronet, of Kandy | Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet | Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet | Sir Henry Rawlinson | Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet |
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.
Two populations are known with certainty, one in the Moeras River at Barrydale and one at the Tradouw River at Tradouw's Pass.
The Langeberg mountain range separates the southern Cape coast from the Little Karoo.
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.
Five college students set off to find out what happened to the nine skiers who mysteriously died in the Dyatlov Pass incident.
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 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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
It is located on the N3 national road at the top of Van Reenen's Pass on the Great Escarpment of the Drakensberg.
Some went to the Western Cape where they banked up the Hex River Pass from De Doorns and later worked with Class 19C locomotives across Sir Lowry's Pass to Caledon and Bredasdorp in the Overberg.