Great Fish River (South Africa)
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- Work cat.: Birch, N.V.E. The vegetation potential of natural rangelands in the mid-Fish River valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 2000.
- Wikipedia, June 9, 2006(Fish River (sometimes also known as the Great Fish River to distinguish it from the Fish River in Namibia) is a river in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa)
- South African Geographical Names System, via WWW, June 9, 2006(no listing for Fish River or Great Fish River in Eastern Cape; listing for Fish River, river, Northern Cape, magisterial district: Sutherland K.P., latitude -32.2 longitude 20.4)
- GEOnet, June 9, 2006(Great Fish River, STM, 33⁰29ʹ00ʺS 027⁰08ʹ00ʺE, South Africa, Eastern Cape, variants: Oub; Infante, Rio de; Groot-Visrivier; Groot-Vis; Great Fish)
- Encyc. Britannica online, June 9, 2006(Great Fish River, Afrikaans Groot-Vis, river in the Cape Midlands, Eastern province, southern South Africa. The Great Fish River has a length of 430 miles (692 km) and a drainage area of 11,900 square miles (30,800 square km))
- Tanser, F. Vegetation mapping of the Great Fish River basin, South Africa, 2000, via WWW, June 9, 2006:t.p. (Great Fish River basin (32⁰54ʹS, 26⁰35ʹ to 33⁰17ʹS, 27⁰08ʹE), Eastern Cape Province, South Africa)
The Great Fish River (called great to distinguish it from the Namibian Fish River) (Afrikaans: Groot-Visrivier) is a river running 644 kilometres (400 mi) through the South African province of the Eastern Cape. The coastal area between Port Elizabeth and the Fish River mouth is known as the Sunshine Coast. The Great Fish River was originally named Rio do Infante, after João Infante, the captain of one of the caravels of Bartolomeu Dias. Infante visited the river in the late 1480s. The name Great Fish is a misnomer, since it is a translation of the Dutch Groot Visch Rivier, which was the name of a tributary in the vicinity of Cradock, which at its confluence with the Little Fish (Klein Visch Rivier) forms what is properly called the (Eastern Cape) Fish River.
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