HermanusTrivia
- Our old airport is now a housing development for the disadvantaged.
- Our long narrow community consists of 7 smaller villages.
- Hermanus is not only the holiday home of South Africa's rich and famous...
- Hermanus is the home of the Abalone / Perlemoen industry in South Africa - farming these shellfish has been necessitated by the illegal poaching of thousands of tonnes per year.
- Hoy's Koppie has an ancient cave & shell midden dating back to Hermanus' FIRST stone age residents.
- The suburbs of Hermanus have their very own endangered plant species, endemic only to Hoy's Koppie and nowhere else in the world.
- Hermanus was once the home of the true leader of "The Great Escape" (seen the movie?), Squadron Leader Roger Bushell - check for his name on the war memorial at the Old Harbour. "Chicken Run" was a spoof of the real movie.
- The population of Hermanus quadruples every year during the week between Christmas and New Year.
- The Magnetic Observatory is located in Hermanus, also a research station, it is the only one of its kind in South Africa. If you see the magnetic variation from true North on your map - this is where it is monitored and updated.
- Hermanus is the only town in South Africa, and perhaps the world, with a railway station that has never had a track or trains running to it.
- Our International Tourist Industry started in the 1800's as a treatment centre for wealthy Europeans with lung problems - mostly TB. The Windsor Hotel and the Hermanus Esplanade were formerly a TB Hospital.
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