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Title: Busy main road of Elsies River, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Elsies River (South Africa), Apartheid, Infrastructure, Street vendors
Description: This is the busy main road of Elsies River, where hawkers and vendors sell alongside flourishing modern shops of every variety. People flock to the area for the bargains and the colourful market atmosphere.
Identifier: islandora:18113

Title: Dunes between rivers, Kalahari Gemsbok National Park
Subject: Savanna, Kalahari Duneveld, , , ,
Description: Location: Kalahari Gemsbok National park; between Auob and Nossob Rivers; location estimated. Grid square coverage uncertain., Ecology: Arid Savanna dominated by non-perennial grass.
Identifier: islandora:10526

Title: Liesbeek River, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Liesbeek River (South Africa), Environment, Pollution, Health, Nature, Rivers
Description: The Black River as it is now known, was once part of the Liesbeek and Salt River complex which formed the original Paarden Eiland. Today it is slow and polluted with effluent from nearby Athlone Power Station.
Identifier: islandora:16586

Title: Groot River Poort
Subject: Fynbos, Azonal, Albany Thicket, Succulent Karoo, Eastern Fynbos-Renosterveld, Rainshadow Valley Karoo, Inland Saline Vegetation, , , , ,
Description: Location: South of southwest of the farm Bucklands, on a taller outcrop than for 039-195, above the Groot River, looking due south through the Groot River Poort (portrait)., Ecology: Mixture of vegetation types, including thicket, fynbos, succulent and riverine elements.
Identifier: islandora:10595

Title: Groot River Poort
Subject: Fynbos, Azonal, Albany Thicket, Succulent Karoo, Eastern Fynbos-Renosterveld, Rainshadow Valley Karoo, Inland Saline Vegetation, , , , ,
Description: Location: South of southwest of the farm Bucklands, on a taller outcrop than for 039-195, above the Groot River, looking due south through the Groot River Poort (landscape)., Ecology: Mixture of vegetation types, including thicket, fynbos, succulent and riverine elements.
Identifier: islandora:10594

Title: Cathedral Peak. Ndedema River
Subject: Botany--South Africa--Kwazulu-Natal, Botany--Drakensberg Mountains, Botany--South Africa--Ndedema Gorge, ,
Description: Ndedema
Identifier: islandora:8663

Title: Rough sketch showing imperfectly the divisions of the Volta River District.
Subject: Ghana--Description and travel--Maps, Volta Region (Ghana)--Description and travel--Maps, Ghana--Volta River--Description and travel--Maps,
Description: Rough sketch, showing imperfectly the divisions of the Volta River District, with towns and divisions, Volta River, time between distances, and plantations. Coloured. Scale not given.
Identifier: islandora:29974

Title: Report on a large shelter site on a river, yielding artefacts, and single piece of rock painting.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, , ,
Description: Report on a large shelter (Losberg shelter) site on a river, yielding artefacts, and single piece of red ochre rock painting. Artefacts include animal bones, pottery, ostrich egg shells tortoise carapace and bone points. The Losberg shelter is near Nelspoort in the Karoo, Western Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:22140

Title: Playing games along river, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Leisure time--South Africa, Social life and customs--South Africa, City dwellers--South Africa,
Description: Andrew, Addey and Ian (from L to R) play Pooh Sticks during a picnic at a river north of Johannesburg, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:1410

Title: Giant's Castle, Upper Mooi River
Subject: Botany--South Africa--Kwazulu-Natal, Botany--Drakensberg Mountains, ,
Description: Loteni & Giant's Castle
Identifier: islandora:8477

Title: Inland on the Umgeni River
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Description: Inland on the Umgeni River near Tops Needles (part of MOSS project)
Identifier: islandora:10344

Title: Cathkin Peak. At Nkosasana River Falls. Late p.m.
Subject: Botany--South Africa--Kwazulu-Natal, Botany--Drakensberg Mountains, ,
Description: Champagne Castle to Cathedral Peak
Identifier: islandora:8638

Title: Cathkin Peak. Nkosasana River. 10h50
Subject: Botany--South Africa--Kwazulu-Natal, Botany--Drakensberg Mountains, ,
Description: Champagne Castle to Cathedral Peak
Identifier: islandora:8632

Title: Porters carrying luggage across a river
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Porters--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rivers--Tanzania
Description: Porters crossing a river. Godfrey Wilson listed the names of ten porters who assisted either in taking his goods into the field, or from one field-site to another. Photograph taken by Godfrey Wilson sometime between September and October 1934, as a lone anthropologist during his first five months of fieldwork (August-December 1934)
Identifier: islandora:5612

Title: Report of sites along the banks of the Sundays, Milk and Moordenaars Rivers. These sites yielded many of artefacts.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, ,
Description: Report of sites along the banks of the Sundays, Milk and Moordenaars Rivers in South Africa. Fossil bones, skulls, stone hand axes, choppers, scrapers, cleavers, spear points, arrowheads, shell middens were found.
Identifier: islandora:21969

Title: Cockscomb Mountains, Groot River valley, acacia Karoo
Subject: Azonal, Inland Saline Vegetation, , , , ,
Description: Location: Taken east of the Rooidraai farmstead on the western side of the Groot River, facing southeast. Grid square coverage uncertain., Ecology: Groot River channel, with grass close to the waters edge and taller riverine vegetation further back.
Identifier: islandora:10748

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