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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Klipplaat

Klipplaat is a town in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

The town is some 185 km north-west of Port Elizabeth and 75 km south-east of Aberdeen. It takes its name from large slabs of rock on the surface of the ground; from Afrikaans klip: 'stone' or 'rock'; plaat: 'sheet' or 'slab'.

References

  1. ^ Sum of the Main Places Klipplaat and Wongalethu from Census 2011.
  2. ^ Travel distances from Klipplaat
  3. ^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 251.