Bloukoppies
Bloukoppies is a hill in Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality, Namakwa, Northern Cape and has an elevation of 1,097 metres.Places of Interest
Highlights include KAT-7 and MeerKAT.
KAT-7
Research institute
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
KAT-7 is a radio telescope situated in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Developed as the precursor engineering test bed to the larger MeerKAT telescope, previously known as Karoo Array Telescope, it has become a science instrument in its own right.
MeerKAT
Research institute
Photo: Morganoshell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. MeerKAT is situated 2½ km northeast of Bloukoppies.
Bloukoppies
- Type: Hill with an elevation of 1,097 metres
- Category: landform
- Location: Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality, Namakwa, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Dutch—“Bloukoppies” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bloukoppies”
- Dutch: “Bloukoppies”
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