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Olifantshoek
Sign in to saveOlifantshoek is a town in John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.
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- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Gamagara Local Municipality
- Dialing code
- 053
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- inception
- 1912-01-01
- postal code
- 8450
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- History
- Geography
- Climate
- Attractions
- Witsand Nature Reserve
- Hiking trails
- San Rock Paintings
- War Grave
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- External links
- References
Olifantshoek is a town in John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.
The village is 60 km northwest of Postmasburg and 80 km southwest of Kuruman. It developed from a police post and is administered by a village management board. The name is of Afrikaans origin and means "elephants' corner" or "elephants' glen", referring to the many elephant skeletons that Dutch settlers found in the area. It may also be translated from Tswana "ditlou".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Olifantshoek” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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