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Amsterdam Flats, Region in the Eastern Cape

Region between the Swartkops and Coega Rivers near Port Elizabeth. Named after a Dutch East India Company Ship, which was wrecked in a storm in the English Channel, on 26 December 1749. The settlement Amsterdamhoek was also named after that ship.

Geolocation
25° 25' 12", -33° 28' 48"
References

New Dictionary of South African Place Names by Peter E. Rape

Further Reading
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81zgx