Orange River Mouth - Saving the integrity of one of SA's most important estuaries

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Aubrey Withers Decades of human-made impacts have left its mark on the estuary of South Africa’s largest river, the Orange. Now new plans are underfoot to prevent the further degradation of this important Ramsar site. Article by Sue Matthews. When Robert Jacob Gordon – the Dutch explorer and military officer who named the Orange River – spent a few days at the river’s mouth in August 1779, he observed a large marsh on the southern bank and noted that the land was so low that it ‘must be completely covered when the sea and river are high’.

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