Winklespruit
Winklespruit is a small seaside resort on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and now forms part of the coastal town of Kingsburgh and the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, the Greater Durban metropolitan area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Illovo River.
Illovo River
River
The iLovu River, alternatively rendered the Illovo River is a river in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. It rises in the upper Illovo area in the Richmond vicinity near the Drakensberg, and empties into the Indian Ocean near Winklespruit, on the South Coast.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Warner Beach and Illovo.
Warner Beach
Suburb
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Warner Beach is a small resort town south of the Little Manzimtoti River in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and it forms part of eThekwini. It was laid out by surveyor P.A. Warner as a residential area in 1910 for government pensioners.
Illovo
Suburb
Illovo Beach is a small coastal resort on the banks of the Lovu River in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is now part of eThekwini. The river was named by the Zulus "iLovu" because of the mlovu trees growing on its banks.
Doonside
Suburb
Doonside is a small beachside resort suburb in Kingsburgh, some 30 km south-west of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa on the South Coast. At first the siding was called Middleton, after its builder, but to avoid confusion with Middleton in the Cape the name was changed in 1910 to Doonside, after a house called Lorna Doone which overlooked the siding. Doonside is situated 3 km north of Winklespruit.
Winklespruit
- Type: Suburb
- Description: place in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Ethekwini, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-30.09556° or 30° 5′ 44″ southLongitude
30.8575° or 30° 51′ 27″ eastElevation
42 metres (138 feet)Open location code
4GXGWV35+Q2OpenStreetMap ID
node 262718812OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Winklespruit” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Winkelspruit”
- Afrikaans: “Winklespruit”
- Asturian: “Winklespruit”
- Dutch: “Winkelspruit”
- Estonian: “Winklespruit”
- French: “Winklespruit”
- Pedi: “Winklespruit”
- Turkish: “Winkelspruit”
- Zulu: “IWinklespruit”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Winklespruit”. Photo: P.Lindgren, CC BY-SA 3.0.