Cassandra
Cassandra is a suburb in Sol Plaatjie, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape and has an elevation of 1,218 metres. Cassandra is situated nearby to the suburb Ernestville, as well as near Beaconsfield.Places of Interest
Highlights include De Beers Diamond Oval and McGregor Museum.
De Beers Diamond Oval
Sports venue
The De Beers Diamond Oval is a cricket stadium in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. It opened in 1973 and has a capacity of 11,000. It is currently used mostly for cricket matches and is the home venue of both the VKB Knights, in the Sunfoil Series, and Northern Cape, in the CSA Provincial Competitions.
McGregor Museum
Museum
The McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa, originally known as the Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum, is a multidisciplinary museum which serves Kimberley and the Northern Cape, established in 1907.
Duggan-Cronin Gallery
Art gallery
The Duggan-Cronin Gallery, which is a satellite of the McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa, houses in part the legacy in photographs and ethnographic artefacts of the photographer Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beaconsfield and Kimberley.
Beaconsfield
Suburb
Beaconsfield is a suburb of Kimberley, South Africa, formerly known as Du Toit's Pan. Beaconsfield was a separate borough from Kimberley itself until its amalgamation with the latter as the City of Kimberley in 1912.
Kimberley
Kimberley is the capital of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Amongst other things, it is famous for its Big Hole, the world's largest hand-dug excavation that was created when thousands of people searched for diamonds at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.Cassandra
- Type: Suburb
- Category: locality
- Location: Sol Plaatjie, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-28.74339° or 28° 44′ 36″ south
Longitude
24.79416° or 24° 47′ 39″ east
Elevation
1,218 metres (3,996 feet)
Open location code
5G367Q4V+JM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
GeoNames ID
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