Port Alfred

Coordinates: 33°35′30″S 26°53′15″E / 33.59167°S 26.88750°E / -33.59167; 26.88750
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For the bay in South Australia, see Black Point, South Australia.

Port Alfred
PO box
6170
Area code046
Websitewww.portalfred.co.za

Port Alfred is a small town with a population of just under 26,000

Gqeberha and East London and 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Cannon Rocks
.

History

Port Alfred was established in the early 1820s by British settlers who were moved into the area by Lord Charles Somerset as there was conflict between the Cape Colony and the Xhosa people. Originally, it was two separate towns (settlers arriving on the west bank in 1820 named their settlement Port Kowie, and those arriving on the east bank named theirs Port Frances[2]).

In 1860, when Queen Victoria's son Prince Alfred visited, the name was changed in his honour.[3]

Port

In 1839, William Cock and George Hodgkinson started to block the natural river mouth to the east and canalise the present opening to the sea. By 1841 South Africa's first man-made harbour was opened after completion of the stone-lined channel between the ocean and the Kowie river.[4] This allowed high-masted sailing ships with their heavy cargo to dock at the wharf.

Transport

Port Alfred is located on the junction of the

Colchester to the west and follows the coast to East London
in the east.

Education

Educational establishments based in Port Alfred include

Stenden University in the Netherlands), a private Christian school (El Shaddai Christian Academy), the biggest flying training school in the Southern Hemisphere (43 Air School), Mtyhobo Primary School, Dambuza Primary School, Nomzamo High School, Kuyasa Combined School and Port Alfred High School
.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Sum of the Main Places Nkwenkwezi and Port Alfred from Census 2011.
  2. ^ http://home.intekom.com/african_lioness/history~.html
  3. ISBN 978-0-947464-04-2 – via Internet Archive
    .
  4. ^ Bond, John (1957). "10 - Trekkers of the Sea". They were South Africans. London, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 91.

Further reading

Turpin, Eric W (1964). Basket Work Harbour; The Story of the Kowie. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. p. 136.

ISBN 0-86978-244-4
.

External links

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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Port Alfred.


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