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Koppie and grassland, Northern Cape Province |
N10 around Britstown, Northern Cape |
Great Karoo, Northern Cape Province, South Africa |
Big Sky Country, Northern Cape Province, South Africa |
Prickly Pear Cactus along the N12, Northern Cape Province |
Prickly Pear Cactus and white puffy clouds |
Windmill, N12 near jct R387, Northern Cape |
Windmill, N12 near jct R387, Northern Cape |
N12 at the junction of R387 to Kraankuil, Northern Cape |
N12 to Kimberley, Northern Cape |
N12 to Kimberley, Northern Cape |
N12 Battlefield Route on the road to Kimberley |
Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) battlefields in the Northern Cape |
Road sign - Kimberley Airport |
Sunset, Kimberley |
Kalahari Lodge, Kimberley |
Kalahari Lodge, Kimberley |
Northern Cape Province license plate, South Africa |
Diamond Pavilion Mall, Kimberley |
Hola Uruguay, Welcome to Kimberley, FIFA World Cup 2010 |
Honoured Dead Memorial, Siege of British Kimberley by the Boers, 1899-1900 |
Honoured Dead Memorial, Siege of Kimberley |
Cecil Rhodes statue, Kimberley |
Equestrian statue of Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902), Kimberley |
Woolworths, downtown Kimberley |
Harry Oppenheimer House, DTC, a De Beers Group Company |
DTC - Diamond Trading Company, Kimberley |
Diamond Trading Company (DTC), the rough diamond sales and distribution of De Beers |
DTC - Harry Oppenheimer House, Kimberley |
Diamond Trading Company (DTC), the tallest building in Kimberley |
Early morning downtown Kimberley |
Beware of car theft and break-ins - Pasop |
Downtown Kimberley, early morning |
The Corner, downtown Kimberley |
Trinity Methodist Church, Kimberley |
Beware - Remove all pullout radios and loose parcels from your vehicle |
Kimberley Pharmacy (Apteek) |
Bean Street & Old De Beers Road, Kimberley |
Kimberley City Hall |
Kimberley City Hall |
Kimberley City Hall - Spero Meliora |
Clock Tower, Kimberley |
De Beers Mine, Kimberley |
De Beers Mine Observation Post, Kimberley |
De Beers Mine, discovered May 1871 |
De Beers Mine - 27 hectares, Kimberley |
De Beers Mine, Kimberley |
De Beers Mine, Kimberley |
Old De Beers Boardroom, Kimberley |
Oriental Building, Kimberley |
Black Diamonds Club, Kimberley |
The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited, Kimberley, 1922 |
Consolidated Building, Kimberley, 1926 |
The BIG HOLE Kimberley |
The Big Hole, Kimberley |
The Big Hole, Kimberley |
Kimberley Central Diamond Mining |
Kimberley Mine Headgear at the Big Hole, 1892 |
The Kimberley Mine, discovered in 1871 |
The Big Hole produced 14,504,566 carats of diamonds (2722 kg) |
The Big Hole mine ceased operation in 1914 |
The surface of the water is at a depth of 174m below ground level |
At its peak, the Big Hole was 240m deep, the largest hand-excaved open pit mine |
The Big Hole, Kimberely |
Narrow-gauge steam locomotives at the Big Hole museum |
Steam-driven tractor, the Big Hole museum, Kimberely |
Underground mine shafts reached to 1097m |
Observation bridge over the rim of the Big Hole, Kimberley |
Steam engine and Kimberley Mine headgear |
Steam engine, the Big Hole, Kimberley |
Ore carts, the Big Hole |
The Big Hole Exhibition Centre, Kimberley |
The Big Hole Exhibition Centre, Kimberley |
World of Diamonds, Kimberley - Pioneering City |
Diamond replica, The Big Hole Exhibition Centre, Kimberley - the real ones are displayed in a vault |
Where Diamonds Come From - The Big Hole Exhibition Centre, Kimberley |
Model of the Big Hole in the early stages when there were dozens of separate mining claims |
Map of the world's Kimberlite pipes |
Cross section of the geology of South Africa |
Recreation of a mine tunnel, Underground Mine Experience,Big Hole Museum |
Recreation of a mine tunnel, Underground Mine Experience, Big Hole Museum |
Jigging machine to extract diamonds from the ore, the Big Hole Exhibition Centre |
Mining equipment, the Big Hole Museum |
The Big Hole Exhibition Centre in the Pulsator Building, Kimberley |
Old Town Kimberley - open air museum of original and recreated historic Kimberley buildings |
Old Town Kimberley |
Old Town Kimberley |
The Australian Arms Guest Lodge Reception, Old Town Kimberley |
Craven Hotel Bar, Old Town Kimbereley |
Gowie Brothers, 1886-1910, Old Town Kimberley |
Goodchild & Rothschild Auction Mart & Claim Office, 1874 |
The Australian Arms - Kimberley pub established in 1873, present building dates from 1915 |
Bar room of the Australian Arms, Kimberley |
Dining room at the Australian Arms, Old Town Kimberley |
Haskell's Reading Room & Billard-Saloon, 1870's, Old Town Kimberley |
Haskell's Reading Room, Old Town Kimberley |
The Diggers Rest, replica of one of the 128 pubs of Kimberley |
The Digger's Rest, Old Town Kimberley |
Kimberley's Oldest House, 1877, and German Lutheran Church of St. Martini, 1875 |
Interior of the Digger's Rest, Old Town Kimberley |
Interior of the Digger's Rest, Old Town Kimberley |
Kimberley's Oldest House, 1877 wooden prefabricated home made in England |
Interior of Kimberley's Oldest House |
Diamond Buyer's Office, Old Town Kimberley |
Shacks, Old Town Kimberley |
Interior of an old Kimberley cottage |
Springbok Carpet, Old Town Kimberley |
Native hut, Old Town Kimberley |
German Lutheran Church of St. Martini, Old Town Kimberley |
Deutsche Evangelische Luther Kirche, 1875, Old Town Kimberley |
German Lutheran Church of St. Martini, 1875, Old Town Kimberley |
Occidental Bar, Old Town Kimberley |
Occidental Bar, Old Town Kimberley |
Old Town Kimberley with the large tin Pulsator Building at the Big Hole |
Mine Manager's House, Old Town Kimberley |
Kitchen of the Mine Manager's House, Old Town Kimberley |
William Shilling Soda Water & Lemonade Factory, 1876, Old Town Kimberley |
Jewish Hearse ca 1900 mounted on a 1926 Chevrolet, Old Town Kimberley |
Panhard and Levassor Light Motor Carriage, 1901, Old Town Kimberley |
Kimberley & Alexandersfontein Electric Railway, Old Town Kimberley |
Road sign for Kimberley Airport and Bloemfontein via N8 |
South African Air Force Aermacchi MB-326 Impala, Memorial Road, Kimberley |
N12 Bridge over the Vaal River at Warrenton, the border between Northern Cape and North West Province, South Africa |
N12, North West Province |
N12, North West Province |
License plate of the North West Province, South Africa |
Bloemhof, North West Province, South Africa |
Free State Province Welcomes You, South Africa |
Free State Province License Plate, South Africa |
Hoopstad, Free State Province, Afrikanerbeeswereld |
Free State Province - very Iowa-like |
R59 in terrible shape, Free State Province |
Free State Province license plate "STUD FS" |