Alexander Bay, Northern Cape (Q1856529)

Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Alexander Bay (Afrikaans: Alexanderbaai) is a town in the extreme north-west of South Africa. It is located on the southern bank of the Orange River mouth. It was named for Sir James Alexander, who was the first person to map the area whilst on a Royal Geographical Society expedition into Namibia in 1836. (It is mistakenly believed by many locals that it was he who first established commercial copper mining in the area.) With diamonds being discovered along the West Coast in 1925, Alexander Bay was established to service the mining industry.

Summary from Nederlands / Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki)

Alexanderbaai (Engels: Alexander Bay) is een dorp in de gemeente Richtersveld in de regio Klein Namakwaland in de Zuid-Afrikaanse provincie Noord-Kaap. De plaats ligt in de meest noordwestelijke hoek van Zuid-Afrika aan de grens met Namibië, bij de monding van de Oranjerivier in de Atlantische Oceaan op de zuidelijke oever. Aan de andere zijde van de rivier ligt de Namibische plaats Oranjemund. De plaats ligt 240 km verwijderd van Springbok, het administratieve centrum van Namakwaland. Alexanderbaai ligt in een gebied waar veel diamanten worden gevonden.

Wikidata location: -28.5953, 16.4848 view on OSM or edit on OSM

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node: Alexander Bay (OSM), 250 m from Wikidata [show tags]
name: Alexander Bay
is_in: Northern Cape, South Africa
place: village
source: sagns
name:af: Alexanderbaai
name:en: Alexander Bay
sagns_id: 95583
wikidata: Q1856529
wikipedia: en:Alexander Bay, Northern Cape

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