Koonap
About this item
Identifier
1883_SKCPN
Title
Koonap
Alternative Title
Koonap
Georeference Sources
K 3326 BR by uitmonding
Is Part Of
longitude
26.75
latitude
-33.25
Measurement Accuracy
25 km radius
Notes about Name
by uitmonding
Source
afr
Beutler 1752 GM RZA J 335 '...sijn op deese marsch de Kleyne Brakkerivier, nevens nog een ander die daar instroomt Conna genaamt gepasseert'. Sparrman 1775 VCGH 2 151 '...one would come to a river called Konap, which was supposed to run into the Visch-rivier...' Swellengrebel H 1776 GM RZA 4 11 '...aan de Komma, een sterk loopende R...' Gordon 1777 ms / 89 'Waaren na drie uren van de 'Conap...' Janssens 1803 GM RZA 4 167 '...maar aan de t’Konabrivier...gekomen zijnde...' Ibid. 171 '...toen wy aan...de t’Conabrivier arriveerden...' Backhouse 1839 Narrative 180 '...crossing the Kunap, a tributary to the Fish River...' Pettman 1931 SAPN 28 'A branch of the Great Fish River, C.P., is known as the Koonap River; this name would seem to refer to the crookedness of its course and would then have its origin in the Hottentot word ǃonab, The Crooked. The river is known to the Kaffirs as i-Kobonqaba'.
