Fort Cox
Fort Cox near Middledrift in the Eastern Cape, South Africa was a frontier fort in the Amatola Mountains on a loop of the Keiskamma River.- Type: Farm
- Description: fort in Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Fort Cox Campus Farm” and “Fort Cox, Eastern Cape”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burnshill and Middledrift.
Burnshill
Village
Burnshill is a town in Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Former mission station of the Glasgow Missionary Society, established at the foot of the Amathole Mountains in 1831.
Middledrift
Village
Photo: Lysippos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Middledrift, also known as iXesi, is a small town located 90 kilometres north-west of East London in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated in Raymond Mhlaba Municipality in Amathole District in an area that was formerly part of the Ciskei. Middledrift is situated 7 km southwest of Fort Cox.
Fort Cox
- Categories: fort and agriculture
- Location: Amahlathi Local Municipality, Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-32.76819° or 32° 46′ 6″ southLongitude
27.03427° or 27° 2′ 3″ eastElevation
550 metres (1,804 feet)Operator
Fort Cox Agriculture and Forestry Training InstituteOpen location code
4GV962JM+PPOpenStreetMap ID
way 1495854472OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=farmyardGeoNames ID
1003946Wikidata ID
Q13553755
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Japanese—“Fort Cox” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fort Cox”
- German: “Fort Cox”
- Japanese: “フォート・コックス”
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