| 词条 | Port Alfred |
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| name = Port Alfred | image_skyline = Bridge in Port Alfred, South Africa.jpg | image_caption = Bridge in Port Alfred | pushpin_map = South Africa Eastern Cape#South Africa | coordinates = {{coord|33|35|30|S|26|53|15|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = South Africa | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Eastern Cape | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Sarah Baartman | subdivision_type3 = Municipality | subdivision_name3 = Ndlambe | subdivision_type4 = Main Place | established_title = Established | government_type = Town Council | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Sipho Tandani | area_footnotes = [1] | area_total_km2 = 46.6 | population_footnotes = [1] | population_total = 25859 | population_as_of = 2011 | population_density_km2 = auto | demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011) | demographics1_footnotes = [1] | demographics1_title1 = Black African | demographics1_info1 = 75.8% | demographics1_title2 = Coloured | demographics1_info2 = 6.8% | demographics1_title3 = Indian/Asian | demographics1_info3 = 0.3% | demographics1_title4 = White | demographics1_info4 = 16.7% | demographics1_title5 = Other | demographics1_info5 = 0.4% | demographics_type2 = First languages (2011) | demographics2_footnotes = [1] | demographics2_title1 = Xhosa | demographics2_info1 = 71.2% | demographics2_title2 = English | demographics2_info2 = 14.4% | demographics2_title3 = Afrikaans | demographics2_info3 = 11.4% | demographics2_title4 = | demographics2_info4 = | demographics2_title5 = Other | demographics2_info5 = 3.1% | timezone1 = SAST | utc_offset1 = +2 | postal_code_type = Postal code (street) | postal_code = 6170 | postal2_code_type = PO box | postal2_code = 6170 | area_code_type = Area code | area_code = 046 | website = {{url|http://www.portalfred.co.za/}} }} Port Alfred is a small town with a population of just under 26,000[1] in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated on the eastern seaboard of the country at the mouth of the Kowie River, almost exactly halfway between the larger cities of Port Elizabeth and East London and {{convert|30|km}} West of Cannon Rocks. HistoryPort Alfred was established in the early 1820s by British settlers who were moved into the area by Lord Charles Somerset as a buffer between the Cape Colony and the Xhosa people. Originally it was two separate towns (settlers arriving on the west bank in 1820 named their settlement Port Kowie, and those arriving on the east bank named theirs Port Frances[2]). Later, in 1860, when Queen Victoria’s son Prince Alfred visited, the name was changed in his honour.[3] The portIn 1839, William Cock and George Hodgkinson started to block the natural river mouth to the east and canalise the present opening to the sea. By 1841 South Africa's first man-made harbour was opened after completion of the stone lined channel between the ocean and the Kowie river.[4] This allowed high-masted sailing ships with their heavy cargo to dock at the wharf. TransportPort Alfred is located on the junction of the R67 and R72 roads. The R67 connects Port Alfred with the N2 at Grahamstown to the north, while the R72 joins the N2 near Colchester to the west and follows the coast to East London in the east. EducationPort Alfred is home to Stenden South Africa, a subsidiary campus of Stenden University in the Netherlands. Port Alfred has a private Christian school, El Shaddai Christian Academy. Port Alfred has one dual medium English and Afrikaans school, Port Alfred High School. Port Alfred is home to Southern Africa's well-known air school, 43 Air School. References1. ^1 2 3 4 Sum of the Main Places Nkwenkwezi and Port Alfred from Census 2011. 2. ^http://home.intekom.com/african_lioness/history~.html 3. ^{{cite book|ref=harv|last=Raper|first=P. E. |title=Dictionary of Southern African Place Names|url=https://archive.org/stream/DictionaryOfSouthernAfricanPlaceNames/SaPlaceNames#page/n370/mode/2up|year=1989|publisher=Jonathan Ball Publishers|isbn=978-0-947464-04-2|page=370|via=Internet Archive}} 4. ^{{cite book|last=Bond|first=John|title=They were South Africans|year=1957|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=London, New York|url=https://archive.org/stream/theyweresouthafr006530mbp#page/n109/mode/2up|page=91|chapter=10 - Trekkers of the Sea}} Further reading{{cite book|last=Turpin|first=Eric W|authorlink=|title=Basket Work Harbour; The Story of the Kowie|publisher=Howard Timmins|date=1964|location=Cape Town|pages=136|isbn=0-86978-244-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EIx2QgAACAAJ}}External links{{Commons category}}{{wikivoyage}}
2 : Populated places in the Ndlambe Local Municipality|Populated coastal places in South Africa |
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