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Thesen Island today, in the centre of the Knysna Lagoon. Arndt, together with his wife, Anne Cathrine Margreta Brandt, seven sons, two daughters, his brother Mathias Theodore Thesen (26 October 1813 – 18 June 1884), and his son, Hans Adolf (17 October 1843 – 5 March 1909), and a crew of seven, left Norway for New Zealand on 14 August 1869 in his 117-ton schooner, Albatros.
Knysna Fine Art was founded in 1998 [1] by its owner, Trent Read, [2] who set up the gallery in a converted woodworker's workshop. [3] In 2010 [4] [5] it moved into its current premises in the historic Thesen House [6] (originally the headquarters of Thesen & Co., wood merchants, and Thesen Steamship Co.), where it now occupies 900 square metres (9,687 square foot) of exhibition space.
Nils Peter Thesen (24 April 1853 – 23 November 1929) was a Norwegian-born, South African businessperson. He was a son of Arndt Leonard Thesen (1816–1875) and Ane Catherine Margrethe Brandt (1819–1900). The family emigrated from Stavanger, Norway to Knysna, Cape Colony in 1869, and founded the company Thesen and Company. [1]
Knysna (/ ˈ n aɪ z n ə /; Afrikaans pronunciation:) is a town with 76,150 inhabitants (2019 mid-year estimates) in the Western Cape province of South Africa.It is one of the destinations on the loosely defined Garden Route tourist route.
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The Knysna / ˈ n aɪ z n ə / seahorse or Cape seahorse (Hippocampus capensis) is a species of fish in the family Syngnathidae. [3] It is endemic to the south coast of South Africa, where it has been found in only three brackish water habitats: the estuary of the Keurbooms River in Plettenberg Bay, the Knysna Lagoon, and the estuarine portion of the Swartvlei system in Sedgefield.
Knysna Yacht Club, or simply the KYC, is a sailing club located in town of Knysna, on the Indian Ocean coast of South Africa. Club house in 2014. History.
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