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Favorite thing: Just one more little fact about Aberdeen.
The last wild quagga (Equus quagga quagga), a sub-species of the Plains Zebra was seen near the town in 1878. It became extinct in the wild shortly afterwards, and the last one died in Amsterdam Zoo in 1883.
There is currently a project in South Africa to genetically reestablish the quagga from the Chapman's sub-species. Meanwhile, the endangered Cape Mountain Zebra can be seen at the Cradock Mountain Zebra National Park and now also, nearer, at the new Camdeboo National Park (formerly one of the Karoo Nature Reserve parks) outside Graaff-Reinet.
Updated Jan 31, 2006
Favorite thing: General topo map of Aberdeen area and now with Google Earth (satellite) capability.
Updated Feb 1, 2006
Favorite thing: Often seen alongside the road (and do take care not to run over one) are these leopard tortoises.
Very beautiful and VERY grumpy!
Written Jan 31, 2006
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Often seen alongside the road (and do take care not to run over one) are these leopard tortoises.Very beautiful and VERY grumpy!
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Aberdeen is named after Aberdeen in Scotland, the birthplace of the Reverend Andrew Murray, who was Dutch Reformed Church minister in Graaff-Reinet.The town of Aberdeen is set against the backdrop of...
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Aberdeen lies in splendid isolation, some 60km south-west of Graaff-Reinet, heading towards Oudtshoorn, the Little Karoo and the Southern Cape. The town was first laid out in 1856 on the Brakkefontein...
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Aberdeen is a small town on way to Oudtshoorn from Graaff Reniet, my stay here was just an hour.. I drive around the town becuz the name of town attracted me, but there was nothing (though I have...
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