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The Royal Observatory in Observatory, Cape Town, houses the McClean Telescope. The building was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and was completed in 1897. The original buildings now serve as the headquarters of the South African Astronomical Observatory , with an on-site museum exhibiting various historic instruments and telescopes.
The buildings of the South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town. The history of the SAAO began when the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope was founded in 1820, the first scientific institution in Africa. Construction of the main buildings was completed in 1829 at a cost of £30,000 (equivalent to £3.3 million in 2024).
The Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, is a former scientific institution in South Africa. [1] Founded by the British Board of Longitude in 1820, its main building is now the headquarters building of the South African Astronomical Observatory . The institution was located on a small hill 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south-east from the centre of ...
The Heart of Cape Town Museum is a museum complex in the Observatory suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.It is in the Groote Schuur Hospital on Main Road. The hospital was founded in 1938 and is famous for being the institution where the first human heart transplant took place, conducted by University of Cape Town-educated surgeon Christiaan Barnard on the patient Louis Washkansky.
Cape Town Science Centre. / -33.9383; 18.4640. The Cape Town Science Centre is a not-for-profit [1] science centre in Cape Town, South Africa. It forms part of a wide range of non-classroom initiatives to improve the quality of science understanding and science literacy in South Africa. Until early 2010, the MTN Sciencentre was located in the ...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) (Afrikaans: Universiteit van Kaapstad, Xhosa: iYunivesithi yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa.Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university status in 1918, making it the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest university in Sub-Saharan Africa in continuous operation.
Cape Town's Southern Suburbs lie to the Southeast of the slopes of Table Mountain within rich valleys and vast plains reaching from just south of the Table Bay industrial neighbourhoods in the north to the False Bay coastal suburbs and the Cape Peninsula cliffs to the south, and are crossed North-South by the M3 and M5 freeways. In general ...
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