- Title
- The Diaz Cross at Boknes
- Creator
- Reynolds, Rex
- Subject
- Butler, Guy, 1918-2001 Diaz Cross Alexandria (South Africa) -- History Boknes (South Africa) -- History
- Type
- Image
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/9704
- Identifier
- vital:21522
- Identifier
- This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Identifier
- PIC/M 5259
- Description
- The Diaz Cross Memorial at Kwaaihoek is one of three crosses erected by Bartholmew Diaz when he navigated the Cape coast in the fifteenth century, on his epic journey seeking a route to India, with a squadron of three ships, two caravels and a square-rigged store ship. The original cross was erected 12 March 1488, and was replaced by a replica. The original Diaz cross is in in the William Cullen Library at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. This cross was originally thought to have been erected on an island off the coast of present day Port Elizabeth, however it was discovered by Professor Eric Axelson on the coast near the Alexandria dune fields in 1937. The other two crosses are to be found in Cape Town and at Mossel Bay's Market Square. Diaz Cross is about a 3km-walk from Boknes and about 6km from Bushman's River Mouth.
- Description
- F G Butler (donor)
- Format
- jpg
- Relation
- F.G. Butler Photo Collection
- Rights
- In order to obtain a license for the use of any of the images, apply to Cory Library at cory@ru.ac.za
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