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Aberdeen Road (S) - Hits SA: 2010 (11 June 2008) incl. actual roads called "Aberdeen"
(like Aberdeen Road, Industrial Sites, Benoni; Aberdeen Road, MUTARE, ZIMBABWE. Woodstock "A View from Victoria Road looking down Aberdeen Road" http://woodstock.org.za/2007/08/05/woodstock-then-and-now/;Graaff-Reinet Golf Club Aberdeen Road, off Church Street, Graaff-Reinet; Sierra Leone - the Amputee Camp at Aberdeen Road, Freetown, the residents said that they felt ...
www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No80/Chap8.html; 4 X 4 TRAIL OVER TOORBERG. LINK UP WITH THE ABERDEEN ROAD http://gis.deat.gov.za/isrdp/T_Att.asp?Qid=K1214&Att_ID=1822;Aberdeen Road. Rondebosch. 7800.)

Location: Aberdeen Road Eastern Cape South Africa
mbendi (link to Google Earth) : http://www.mbendi.co.za/travel/trns/22/f856.htm

Look at this one:
http://www.routes.co.za/ec/aberdeenroad/index.html

Interesting facts:Military history The attack on Willowmore: http://rapidttp.com/milhist/vol094dd.html


http://www.countryroads.co.za/aberdeen-road.html

THE TRANSIT OF VENUS: Apart from the local observations at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope and Natal Observatories the British transit committee send out to South Africa another four instruments and they were manned at two sights, namely Montagu Road (renamed Touwsrivier) and Aberdeen Road. All the South African sights experienced clear conditions although a strong wind was a factor at Montagu Road. All stations managed to make successful observations. For more information on the British efforts in South Africa read the article by Koorts - MNASSA April 2004, Vol. 63 nos. 3 & 4, pp. 34 - 57.

http://www.saao.ac.za/assa/html/his-exp-transit_venus.html

"Humans are very inquisitive. We want answers to questions but do not always know how to answer them. For most of the general public an answer that borders on myths, based on no factual basis, usually suffice. For most of mankind's history anyone could have given you any old answer and we could not have known if the answer was correct. To find the correct answer took millennia and a great many brilliant minds spend unknown hours pondering over the problem, instead of indulging in life's other distractions. 300 Years ago the transits of Venus were seen as the solution to the problem. It sadly turned out no to be so. The Sun Earth distance answer had to be solved by other methods.

Using the transits of Venus as a method turned out to be costly with lots of wasted energy and talent. It was an impractical method. However, the moral of the story is that even though with hindsight we tend to criticize and know better, at one time in our past it was a brilliant idea. Actually it was probably the best idea we ever had to solve this particular problem. More than that, it still is a good idea. Today we have the technology to solve the practical aspects, which flummoxed the 18th century astronomers. But because the distance problem was successfully solved by other means we don't need the transit method anymore. Sad, isn't it?"

Scary, isn't it? http://assa.saao.ac.za/html/his-exp-transit_venus.html http://www.eternitypress.co.za/freshair/chronicl.htm



Launch of Arrive Alive N2 Traffic Operational CentreWe cannot allow once again to witness horrific accidents like the ones we saw on the R61- Aberdeen road where passengers were scattered like sheep after a ...
www.capegateway.gov.za/eng/pubs/speeches/2004/Dec/94749

Then you have: http://www.routes.co.za/

Photos: http://www.routes.co.za/sitemap.html

Aberdeen Tourism Bureau

Grey Str
Aberdeen

Phone number: 049-846-0014

Aberdeen is named after Aberdeen in Scotland, the birthplace of the Reverend Andrew Murray, who was Dutch Reformed Church minister in Graaff-Reinet.

Attractions
Also see the neighbouring towns

The steeple of the Dutch Reformed Church is 51.5m high, leaning off-centre by 45.7cm.Tracks of dinosaurs can be seen in sedimentary rocks.

Property in Aberdeen: www.propnetsa.com/propertyinsouthafrica.php

http://sites.google.com/site/saplacenames/south-africa/a/atlantis

Weblinks: http://www.aberdeen.org.za/ Transit of Venus 2012 Click here for some awesome video