Northern Cape
the largest but least populated province in South Africa, in the NW part of the country; created in 1994 from part of Cape Province: agriculture, mining (esp diamonds). Capital: Kimberley. Pop: 899 349 (2004 est). Area: 139 703 sq km (361 830 sq miles)
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How to use Northern Cape in a sentence
On the Northern Cape of the Gate, Point Bonito, are three 16-inch rifles mounted in a similar way.
Harper's Round Table, October 29, 1895 | VariousCrossing the mouth of the bay they clambered up its high Northern Cape, which they called Brevoort.
North-Pole Voyages | Zachariah Atwell MudgeOn the thirtieth, we made St. Marys, being the Northern Cape at the entrance of the river.
Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat | Edmund RobertsOn we sailed; but still the Northern Cape we wished to double seemed a long way off.
Twice Lost | W.H.G. KingstonNordenskjold was the first navigator to137 double Cape Chelyuskin, the Northern Cape of Asia.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania | Jewett Castello Gilson
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