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Coerney
Visited in August 2017
At a glance
- Country
- South Africa
- Region
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- Population
- —
- Type
- Human settlement in South Africa
- Coordinates
- 33.44°S, 25.75°E
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Overview
Coerney is a river and railway station 64 km north of Gqeberha, on the route to Rosmead, situated in the Sundays River Valley in Sarah Baartman District Municipality, in Eastern Cape province, South Africa. Recorded as early as 1752 (in a journal of A.F. Beutler), the name is derived from Khoekhoen and means 'narrow (not "small") forest'. It was formerly also known as Hoender Craal, from Dutch parelhoender, 'guinea-fowl'.
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