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unusual facts about Western Cape Province



Boland Cavaliers

They draw players from the Cape Winelands and West Coast districts of Western Cape Province, and play out of Wellington at Boland Stadium.

Fernkloof Nature Reserve

Fernkloof Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in Hermanus, Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Garden Route

It extends from Mossel Bay in the Western Cape to the Storms River which is crossed along the N2 coastal highway over the Paul Sauer Bridge in the extreme western reach of the neighbouring Eastern Cape.

Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk

Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk (20 August 1853 Riversdale - 22 January 1936 Riversdale), was a South African painter, noted for his majestic landscapes of the Langeberg Range in the Western Cape Province.

Stroud High School

In 2010, Stroud High School, operating through the Afritwin organisation, twinned with Rustenburg School for Girls and Mfuleni High School, in the greater Cape Town area of Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Van Zyl's golden mole

Van Zyl's golden mole (Cryptochloris zyli) is a golden mole endemic to the Western Cape Province, South Africa.


see also

Blouberg

Blouberg (Western Cape), formerly Blaauwberg, a mountain in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where the Battle of Blaauwberg took place

Chrysoritis swanepoeli

Chrysoritis swanepoeli hyperion (Dickson, 1975) (South Africa: Western Cape Province)

Kriel

Hernus Kriel (born 1941), first Premier of the Western Cape province

MV Treasure oil spill

The ship wreck is located 50 meters below the water surface in the Bloubergstrand area on the Atlantic coast near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa however, the top of the ship's deck is as close as 30 meters below the surface of the water.

R. rosea

Romulea rosea, a herbaceous perennial plant species endemic to the western Cape Province in South Africa

S. erectum

Satyrium erectum, an orchid species endemic to southwestern and western Cape Province

South Western Districts cricket team

South Western Districts are a South African first class cricket team based in the Western Cape city of Oudtshoorn, and representing approximately the eastern half of Western Cape province.