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68-837: Coordinates : 33°55′56″S 18°24′42″E / 33.93209237065384°S 18.411665556762298°E / -33.93209237065384; 18.411665556762298 (Redirected from Mount Nelson Hotel ) Luxury hotel at the centre of Cape Town in a garden estate Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel [REDACTED] [REDACTED] General information Location 76 Orange Street, Cape Town, South Africa Coordinates 33°55′56″S 18°24′42″E / 33.93209237065384°S 18.411665556762298°E / -33.93209237065384; 18.411665556762298 Opening 1899 Management Belmond Ltd. Other information Number of rooms 198 Website belmond.com/mountnelsonhotel Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel
136-505: A tan ϕ {\displaystyle \textstyle {\tan \beta ={\frac {b}{a}}\tan \phi }\,\!} ; for the GRS 80 and WGS 84 spheroids, b a = 0.99664719 {\textstyle {\tfrac {b}{a}}=0.99664719} . ( β {\displaystyle \textstyle {\beta }\,\!} is known as the reduced (or parametric) latitude ). Aside from rounding, this
204-460: A datum transformation such as a Helmert transformation , although in certain situations a simple translation may be sufficient. Datums may be global, meaning that they represent the whole Earth, or they may be local, meaning that they represent an ellipsoid best-fit to only a portion of the Earth. Examples of global datums include World Geodetic System (WGS 84, also known as EPSG:4326 ),
272-553: A mine and sank whilst in a convoy 20 nautical miles (37 km) SE of the River Humber, without any loss of life, on 12 Dec 1941 Laid down as Doune Castle and upon purchase named Dunbar Castle 1895 Sold to Fairfield Ship Building and Engineering Co. and renamed Olympia 10 December 1910 – ran aground on Bligh Reef off Alaska's Prince William Sound and sank without loss of life Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co, Goven, Scotland Dec 1899 requisitioned as
340-636: A Lovely Old City The New York Times . 20 January 1979 ^ "Mount Nelson Hotel" . Retrieved 16 October 2014 . ^ "Oudtshoorn South Africa" . Archived from the original on 26 July 2014 . Retrieved 16 October 2014 . ^ "Spending a night with history at the Mount Nelson Hotel" . Archived from the original on 2014-08-11 . Retrieved 16 October 2014 . ^ "Diamond Property Management - Property Management business in Cape Town" . Archived from
408-593: A Union-Castle Royal Mail Ship would leave Southampton bound for Cape Town. At the same time, a Union-Castle Royal Mail Ship would leave Cape Town bound for Southampton. In 1922 the line introduced its Round Africa service, a nine-week voyage calling at twenty ports en route. Alternate sailings travelled out via the Suez Canal and out via West Africa. The combined line was sold to the Royal Mail Line in 1911, but continued to operate as Union-Castle. Many of
476-481: A large garden was established, complete with deer and fountains. It was known as one of the most magnificent gardens in Cape Town. During this period the low wall in Orange Street (which has since been rebuilt) was used as a convenient resting place for washerwomen on their way to the municipal washhouses below Table Mountain’s Platteklip Gorge. The two lions on the property (near the big old oak tree and opposite
544-608: A point on Earth's surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses (often called great circles ), which converge at the North and South Poles. The meridian of the British Royal Observatory in Greenwich , in southeast London, England, is the international prime meridian , although some organizations—such as
612-473: A region of the surface of the Earth. Some newer datums are bound to the center of mass of the Earth. This combination of mathematical model and physical binding mean that anyone using the same datum will obtain the same location measurement for the same physical location. However, two different datums will usually yield different location measurements for the same physical location, which may appear to differ by as much as several hundred meters; this not because
680-588: A service carrying up to 750 Tourist Class passengers to Beira and back via the West Coast route every three months. In December 1999 the Union-Castle name was revived for a millennium cruise ; the P&;O ship Victoria was chartered for a 60-day cruise around Africa, and had its funnel repainted for the occasion. The last few surviving Union-Castle Line ships were scrapped in the early 21st century,
748-478: A small farm). Baron Pieter returned to Holland and while there, was appointed the new governor of the Cape. However, he died en route back to Cape Town, and Oudtshoorn Gardens was subsequently subdivided and sold. (Number 10 Hof Street at the top of Government Avenue contains traces of Baron Pieter’s original home). When people died aboard a ship, they were normally buried at sea, but Baron Pieter van Rheede van Oudtshoorn
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#1732802204893816-896: A system of canals and planted with herbs and medicinal plants, fruit and vegetables, oaks, pines and roses. Today the Company’s Garden is a popular site to visit, surrounded by important landmarks such as the Slave Lodge, the Houses of Parliament , the South African National Gallery , the Great Synagogue , the Cape Town Holocaust Centre , St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town , the Iziko South African Museum and
884-893: A troop transport for the Second Boer War 1913 sold to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company as Caribbean Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering, Govan 1939 requisitioned by the Admiralty as an accommodation ship Struck a mine off Cromarty on 20 Jan 1940 and sank 1984 transferred to Hong Kong renamed Caspian Universal 1936 sold to J. Billmeir, renamed Stanhill Hospital ship Built by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast 1 Mar 1917 – Mined and damaged by UC-65 26 Feb 1918 – Torpedoed and sunk by UC-56 10 nautical miles (19 km) W of Lundy Built by Fairfield SB. & Eng. Co., Ltd., Glasgow 31 Mar 1917 – Damaged by UB-32 near
952-411: Is 6,367,449 m . Since the Earth is an oblate spheroid , not spherical, that result can be off by several tenths of a percent; a better approximation of a longitudinal degree at latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is where Earth's equatorial radius a {\displaystyle a} equals 6,378,137 m and tan β = b
1020-480: Is 110.6 km. The circles of longitude, meridians, meet at the geographical poles, with the west–east width of a second naturally decreasing as latitude increases. On the Equator at sea level, one longitudinal second measures 30.92 m, a longitudinal minute is 1855 m and a longitudinal degree is 111.3 km. At 30° a longitudinal second is 26.76 m, at Greenwich (51°28′38″N) 19.22 m, and at 60° it
1088-522: Is 15.42 m. On the WGS 84 spheroid, the length in meters of a degree of latitude at latitude ϕ (that is, the number of meters you would have to travel along a north–south line to move 1 degree in latitude, when at latitude ϕ ), is about The returned measure of meters per degree latitude varies continuously with latitude. Similarly, the length in meters of a degree of longitude can be calculated as (Those coefficients can be improved, but as they stand
1156-457: Is a luxury hotel situated in the Gardens neighbourhood in inner-city Cape Town in a garden estate overlooked by Table Mountain . Chronology [ edit ] 1743 ( 1743 ) : The land on which Mount Nelson Hotel is now situated was granted to Baron Pieter van Reede van Oudtshoorn . This land was known as Oudtshoorn Gardens (at this time, the term ‘garden’ was used to describe
1224-607: Is different from Wikidata Infobox mapframe without OSM relation ID on Wikidata Coordinates on Wikidata Pages with timeline metadata Official website different in Wikidata and Misplaced Pages Pages using the Kartographer extension Geographic coordinate system A geographic coordinate system ( GCS ) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude and longitude . It
1292-456: Is known as a graticule . The origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km (390 mi) south of Tema , Ghana , a location often facetiously called Null Island . In order to use the theoretical definitions of latitude, longitude, and height to precisely measure actual locations on the physical earth, a geodetic datum must be used. A horizonal datum
1360-642: Is the exact distance along a parallel of latitude; getting the distance along the shortest route will be more work, but those two distances are always within 0.6 m of each other if the two points are one degree of longitude apart. Like any series of multiple-digit numbers, latitude-longitude pairs can be challenging to communicate and remember. Therefore, alternative schemes have been developed for encoding GCS coordinates into alphanumeric strings or words: These are not distinct coordinate systems, only alternative methods for expressing latitude and longitude measurements. Union-Castle Line The Union-Castle Line
1428-409: Is the simplest, oldest and most widely used of the various spatial reference systems that are in use, and forms the basis for most others. Although latitude and longitude form a coordinate tuple like a cartesian coordinate system , the geographic coordinate system is not cartesian because the measurements are angles and are not on a planar surface. A full GCS specification, such as those listed in
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#17328022048931496-465: Is used to precisely measure latitude and longitude, while a vertical datum is used to measure elevation or altitude. Both types of datum bind a mathematical model of the shape of the earth (usually a reference ellipsoid for a horizontal datum, and a more precise geoid for a vertical datum) to the earth. Traditionally, this binding was created by a network of control points , surveyed locations at which monuments are installed, and were only accurate for
1564-599: The Battle of Trafalgar . 1806 ( 1806 ) : The property was let to an auctioneer - Mr William Maude. On 3 August 1806 the property was advertised in the South African Gazette as Mount Nelson – taking inspiration from Cape Town’s Table Mountain and the fame of Lord Nelson. 1843 ( 1843 ) : Sir Hamilton Ross purchased the property. It was to remain within the Ross family for many years during which
1632-720: The Castle Packet Co. which traded to Calcutta round the Cape of Good Hope . This trade was substantially curtailed by the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, and the Castle Line started to run to South Africa instead, later becoming the Castle Mail Packet Company . In 1872 the Cape Colony gained responsible government and its first Prime Minister, John Molteno , ordered a re-negotiation of
1700-750: The EPSG and ISO 19111 standards, also includes a choice of geodetic datum (including an Earth ellipsoid ), as different datums will yield different latitude and longitude values for the same location. The invention of a geographic coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene , who composed his now-lost Geography at the Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC. A century later, Hipparchus of Nicaea improved on this system by determining latitude from stellar measurements rather than solar altitude and determining longitude by timings of lunar eclipses , rather than dead reckoning . In
1768-481: The International Date Line , which diverges from it in several places for political and convenience reasons, including between far eastern Russia and the far western Aleutian Islands . The combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The visual grid on a map formed by lines of latitude and longitude
1836-526: The 1st or 2nd century, Marinus of Tyre compiled an extensive gazetteer and mathematically plotted world map using coordinates measured east from a prime meridian at the westernmost known land, designated the Fortunate Isles , off the coast of western Africa around the Canary or Cape Verde Islands , and measured north or south of the island of Rhodes off Asia Minor . Ptolemy credited him with
1904-1347: The Aegean Sea in 1916 1949 purchased from MoWT , renamed Braemar Castle 1950 transferred to King Line, renamed King James 1958 sold to Hong Kong, renamed Tyne Breeze Built by Northumberland SB. Co., Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne ex- Holtye 1915 purchased from F.S. Holland & Co., London, renamed Carlisle Castle Torpedoed by UB-57 near Royal Sovereign Light Vessel on 14 Feb 1918 1915 purchased from Nitrate Producers Ltd., renamed Chepstow Castle 1933 scrapped Built by Barclay, Curle & Co., Ltd., Glasgow Torpedoed and damaged by UC-71 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) S of St.Catherine's Point on 14 Mar 1918 1924 transferred to Bullard King, renamed Umvoti 1917 purchased from F.S. Holland, London, renamed Crawford Castle 1930 sold to W. Kunstmann, Stettin , renamed Victoria W. Kunstmann Built by Barclay, Curle & Co., Ltd., Glasgow Torpedoed and sunk by UC-67 50 nautical miles (93 km) N of Bona, Algeria on 26 May 1917 1976 renamed Dover Castle 1979 renamed Dover Universal 1981 sold to Greece, renamed Golden Sea 1946 purchased from MoWT , renamed Drakensberg Castle 1959 scrapped Built by Harland & Wolff at Greenock Launched as War Poplar , completed as Dromore Castle She hit
1972-895: The Bay Events and festivals Cape Town Book Fair Cape Town International Jazz Festival Kaapse Klopse Museums and art galleries Air Force Museum Bertram House Chavonnes Battery Cape Town Science Centre District Six Museum Gallery Mau Mau Groote Schuur Heart of Cape Town Museum Hout Bay Museum Holocaust Centre Koopmans-de Wet House Maximum Security Prison, Robben Island Medical Museum Mostert's Mill Simon's Town Museum Naval Museum South African Sendinggestig Museum Waterworks Museum Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa Iziko Museums Bertram House Bo-Kaap Museum Groot Constantia Koopmans-de Wet House Maritime Centre Michaelis Collection at
2040-755: The Book Coornhoop Disa Park Egyptian Building Genadendal Residence Hawthorndon House Houses of Parliament Huguenot Memorial Building Leeuwenhof Mandela Rhodes Building Metlife Centre Mutual Building Naspers Centre Portside Tower Rhodes Memorial Royal Observatory Triangle House Media Newspapers Cape Times The Cape Messenger Radio and television Bush Radio CapeTalk Cape Town TV Fine Music Radio Good Hope FM Kfm 94.5 UCT Radio Voice of
2108-4001: The Cape Economy Entrepreneurship and innovation Silicon Cape Initiative Companies based in Cape Town Naspers Travelstart MWEB Sanlam Woolworths Holdings Limited Of historical interest: Garlicks Hotels and resorts Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel Protea Hotels by Marriott Shopping areas, malls and markets Canal Walk Cavendish Square Golden Acre Greenmarket Square N1 City Tygerberg Mall Somerset Mall Victoria & Alfred Waterfront Exhibition centres Cape Town International Convention Centre Good Hope Centre Restaurants and cafés Café Caprice Perseverance Tavern Tourism Beaches of Cape Town Cape of Good Hope Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Groot Constantia Mariner's Wharf Nature reserves in Cape Town Ratanga Junction Two Oceans Aquarium Victoria & Alfred Waterfront World of Birds Wildlife Sanctuary and Monkey Park Transport Air transport Airports in Cape Town Air Force Base Ysterplaat Cape Town International Airport Cape Winelands Airfield Wingfield Aerodrome Maritime transport Port of Cape Town Safmarine Road transport Buses in Cape Town Golden Arrow Bus Services MyCiTi MyCiTi bus stations Roads in Cape Town Trolleybuses in Cape Town Rail transport Blue Train Commuter rail lines Metrorail Western Cape Cape Flats Line Central Line Northern Line Southern Line Railway stations Bellville Cape Town Claremont Crawford Mowbray Mutual Newlands Observatory Pinelands Retreat Rondebosch Rosebank Salt River Simon's Town Steenberg Woodstock Trams in Cape Town Sports Soccer Cape Town Spurs F.C. Cape Town City F.C. Rugby Western Province Ikey Tigers Cricket Cape Cobras Other Cape Town Tigers (basketball) Sports events 2010 FIFA World Cup Cape Town Cycle Tour Cape Town Open Cape Town Ladies Open Cape Town Marathon South Africa Sevens Two Oceans Marathon Sports venues Athlone Stadium Bellville Stadium Bellville Velodrome Cape Town Stadium Erica Park Good Hope Centre Green Point Stadium Hartleyvale Stadium Killarney Motor Racing Complex Milnerton Racecourse Newlands Cricket Ground Newlands Stadium NNK Rugby Stadium Parow Park Philippi Stadium Royal Cape Golf Club University of
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2176-506: The Earth's surface move relative to each other due to continental plate motion, subsidence, and diurnal Earth tidal movement caused by the Moon and the Sun. This daily movement can be as much as a meter. Continental movement can be up to 10 cm a year, or 10 m in a century. A weather system high-pressure area can cause a sinking of 5 mm . Scandinavia is rising by 1 cm a year as a result of
2244-729: The European ED50 , and the British OSGB36 . Given a location, the datum provides the latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } and longitude λ {\displaystyle \lambda } . In the United Kingdom there are three common latitude, longitude, and height systems in use. WGS 84 differs at Greenwich from the one used on published maps OSGB36 by approximately 112 m. The military system ED50 , used by NATO , differs from about 120 m to 180 m. Points on
2312-536: The French Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière —continue to use other meridians for internal purposes. The prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres , although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E. This is not to be conflated with
2380-572: The Gardens at the Top of Government Avenue, in the most Airy and Healthy part of Cape Town, offers to Visitors all the comforts of a First-class Hotel at Reasonable Charges” 1899 ( 1899 ) : The South African Second Boer War began in October. The British used Mount Nelson Hotel as a headquarters from which to plan their military campaign. Lord Roberts , Kitchener and Redvers Buller stayed at
2448-822: The High Court of South Africa Municipal Police Pollsmoor Prison History Invasion of the Cape Colony Battle of Blaauwberg Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 Noon Gun Convict crisis Timeline of Cape Town Fortifications Amsterdam Battery Castle of Good Hope Chavonnes Battery Fort de Goede Hoop Redoubt Duijnhoop Monuments and memorials Artillery Memorial, Cape Town Japanese Lantern Monument Rhodes Memorial The Cenotaph Treaty Tree Van Riebeeck's Hedge Lists of heritage sites Near Cape Town Bo-Kaap CBD and
2516-1582: The Old Town House Rust en Vreugd Slave Lodge Social History Centre SAS Somerset South African Museum National Gallery William Fehr Collection at the Castle of Good Hope Public art Statues Nelson Mandela Cecil Rhodes Nobel Square George Grey Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Jan van Riebeeck Maria van Riebeeck Bartolomeu Dias Religion Anglican Diocese of Cape Town Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town Religious buildings Auwal Mosque Gardens Shul Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St George Groote Kerk Lutheran Church in Strand Street Nurul Islam Mosque Palm Tree Mosque Queen Victoria Mosque St. George's Cathedral St. James Church St. Mary's Cathedral Secular architecture Cape Dutch architecture Tallest buildings in Cape Town Athlone Power Station Atterbury House Bertram House Boshofpoort Cape Town City Hall Cape Town Civic Centre Castle of Good Hope Centre for
2584-578: The Planetarium. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] 1899 ( 1899 ) : Mount Nelson Hotel opened on 6 March. The first hotel in South Africa to offer hot and cold running water, it was described as being ‘even better than its London counterparts’. Its first advertisement in the Cape Times newspaper, 3 March 1899 read: “This large and splendid hotel, beautifully situated in
2652-583: The Second World War. Three – Dunnottar Castle , Carnarvon Castle , Dunvegan Castle became armed merchant cruisers . Pretoria Castle (1939) was also first requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser, but later served as an escort carrier . After the war the line made good use of its three ships converted to troop transports to facilitate carrying the vast number of emigrants seeking new lives in East and South Africa. When they ran out of berths
2720-491: The Union-Castle Line’s First Class passengers. 1892 ( 1892 ) : The Cape Town municipality assumed responsibility for The Company's Garden – located across Orange Street, in the heart of the city centre - and declared the site open to the public. The Company’s Garden is South Africa’s oldest public garden. It was established by Dutch settlers in 1652. By 1679, the gardens had been transformed through
2788-1027: The Waterfront Simon's Town Helderberg Bellville Table Mountain Wynberg district Historical buildings African Theatre Alhambra Theatre Breakwater Lodge Church Square Coornhoop Graaff Electric Lighting Works Culture Demographics Languages Afrikaans South African English Xhosa Cuisine Cape Town wine Constantia (wine) Gatsby (sandwich) Performance art Cape Town City Ballet Musical ensembles Cape Town Opera Cape Town Philharmonia Choir Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra Theatres Artscape Theatre Centre Baxter Theatre Centre Labia Theatre Little Theatre Magnet Theatre Maynardville Open-Air Theatre Space Theatre The Independent Armchair Theatre Theatre on
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2856-4508: The Western Cape Colleges Qualitas Career Academy South African College Yeshiva of Cape Town Private schools American International School of Cape Town Cannons Creek Independent School Cape Town French School Christel House South Africa Darul Islam Islamic High School Diocesan College German International School Cape Town Herschel Girls' School Herzlia Schools Mountain View Academy Parklands College St. Cyprian's School St. George's Grammar School Michael Oak Waldorf School Oakhurst Primary School Public schools Alexander Sinton Secondary School Belgravia High School Belhar Secondary School Bellville High School Bergvliet Primary School Bergvliet High School Bosmansdam High School Brackenfell High School Cape Academy of Mathematics, Science and Technology Cape Town High School Chris Hani Secondary School Claremont High School COSAT D.F. Malan High School Durbanville High School Eben Dönges High School Eersterivier Secondary School Fairbairn College Fairmont High School Gardens Commercial High School Grove Primary School Harold Cressy High School Hottentots Holland High School Jan van Riebeeck High School Lavender Hill High School Livingstone High School Masiphumelele High School Milnerton High School Mondale High School Parel Vallei High School Pinelands High School Range High School Rondebosch Boys' High School Rondebosch Boys' Preparatory School Rustenburg School for Girls Sea Point High School Sinenjongo High School Spine Road High School South African College Schools Stellenberg High School Strand High School Table View High School The Settlers High School Trafalgar High School Tygerberg High School Westerford High School Windsor High School Wynberg Boys' High School Wynberg Girls' High School Alternative schools GlenBridge Special School Tafelberg School Former schools Ellerslie Girls' High School Tot Nut van het Algemeen Art & music schools Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre South African College of Music Peter Clarke Art Centre Not yet allocated College of Magic Montebello Design Centre Services Hospitals Alexandra Hospital Groote Schuur Hospital Karl Bremer Hospital Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital Somerset Hospital Tygerberg Hospital Valkenberg Hospital Lighthouses Cape Point Lighthouse Green Point Lighthouse Milnerton Lighthouse Roman Rock Lighthouse Slangkop Lighthouse Western Cape Water Supply System Dams and resrvoirs Alexandra Dam Berg River Dam De Villiers Dam Hely-Hutchinson Dam Kleinplaats Dam Land-en-Zeezicht Reservoir Lewis Gay Dam Molteno Dam Silvermine Dam Steenbras Dam Theewaterskloof Dam Victoria Dam Voëlvlei Dam Wemmershoek Dam Woodhead Dam Electrical power generation Athlone Power Station Graaff Electric Lighting Works Koeberg Nuclear Power Station Palmiet Pumped Storage Scheme Emergency services Cape Town Fire Department Metro Emergency Medical Services Mountain Club of South Africa National Sea Rescue Institute [REDACTED] Cape Town • [REDACTED] Outline Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belmond_Mount_Nelson_Hotel&oldid=1217318185 " Categories : Belmond hotels Hotels established in 1899 Economy of Cape Town Hotels in South Africa Cultural depictions of Horatio Nelson Hidden categories: Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas Articles with short description Short description
2924-958: The Western Cape Stadium Wynberg Military Base Stadium Education Libraries Biblionef Central Library Cape Town Centre for the Book Fish Hoek Library Jacob Gitlin Library Meadowridge Library National Library of South Africa Rondebosch Library SAAO Library Strandfontein Library University of Cape Town Libraries Universities Cape Peninsula University of Technology University of Cape Town University of
2992-577: The center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels , as they are parallel to the Equator and to each other. The North Pole is 90° N; the South Pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the Equator , the fundamental plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The Equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres . The longitude λ of
3060-727: The country's mail services. In 1876, keen to avoid either of the two main companies gaining a monopoly on the country's shipping, he awarded the South African mail contract jointly to both the Castle Mail Packet Company and the Union Line. The contract included a condition that the two companies would not amalgamate, as well as other clauses to promote competition, such as alternating services and speed premiums. This competition led to their shipping services running at unprecedented speed and efficiency. The contract
3128-649: The default datum used for the Global Positioning System , and the International Terrestrial Reference System and Frame (ITRF), used for estimating continental drift and crustal deformation . The distance to Earth's center can be used both for very deep positions and for positions in space. Local datums chosen by a national cartographical organization include the North American Datum ,
3196-490: The distance they give is correct within a centimeter.) The formulae both return units of meters per degree. An alternative method to estimate the length of a longitudinal degree at latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is to assume a spherical Earth (to get the width per minute and second, divide by 60 and 3600, respectively): where Earth's average meridional radius M r {\displaystyle \textstyle {M_{r}}\,\!}
3264-952: The former Kenya Castle in 2001, the former Transvaal Castle in 2003, the former Dunnottar Castle in 2004, and finally Windsor Castle in 2005. The initial Union fleet consisted of the colliers Union , Briton , Saxon , Norman and Dane . In 1860 this was augmented by the much larger Cambrian . At the time of the merger in 1900, the Union fleet included: and the Castle Line fleet included: Built by William Beardmore and Company , Glasgow Torpedoed by U-81 on 21 March 1917 Built by Barclay, Curle & Co., Ltd. , Glasgow Torpedoed by U-90 on 21 Nov 1917 1976 renamed Balmoral Castle 1979 renamed Balmoral Universal 1982 sold to Greece, renamed Psara Reefer . 1920 purchased from Glen Line, renamed Banbury Castle 1931 sold to Greece, renamed Rokos Built by Barclay, Curle & Co., Ltd. , Glasgow Mined and damaged by U-73 in
3332-474: The full adoption of longitude and latitude, rather than measuring latitude in terms of the length of the midsummer day. Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography used the same prime meridian but measured latitude from the Equator instead. After their work was translated into Arabic in the 9th century, Al-Khwārizmī 's Book of the Description of the Earth corrected Marinus' and Ptolemy's errors regarding
3400-668: The hotel (the ‘Prince of Wales Gate’ and palm-lined driveway was built in honour of this visit). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the creator of Sherlock Holmes), stayed at the hotel later that year. The wooden chairs in the Garden Room and the Lord Nelson Room were originally used as deck chairs on the Union-Castle Line ships. 1973 ( 1973 ) : The Oasis accommodation wing was added to Mount Nelson Hotel’s main house. 1988 ( 1988 ) : Mount Nelson Hotel
3468-404: The hotel was renamed Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel. 2023 ( 2023 ) : Forbes Travel Guide awarded Belmond Mount Nelson 5 stars, a very high achievement in the Luxury Hotel industry. Further reading [ edit ] Orient Express – A personal Journey by James Sherwood Mount Nelson – by James Sherwood References [ edit ] ^ South Africans Cling to
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#17328022048933536-444: The hotel, and a young war correspondent based at the hotel – Winston Churchill - described the hotel as: “…a most excellent and well appointed establishment which may be thoroughly appreciated after a sea voyage”. 1919 ( 1919 ) : Cape Town was ravaged by a deadly influenza virus . The city’s medical doctors designated Mount Nelson Hotel a ‘plague-free zone’. 1925 ( 1925 ) : Edward VIII , Prince of Wales, visited
3604-511: The length of the Mediterranean Sea , causing medieval Arabic cartography to use a prime meridian around 10° east of Ptolemy's line. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes ' recovery of Ptolemy's text a little before 1300; the text was translated into Latin at Florence by Jacopo d'Angelo around 1407. In 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference , attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt
3672-948: The line set up its own internal travel agency to book passages on other lines and even air services. The mail service to South Africa, curtailed during hostilities, recommenced with the sailing of Roxburgh Castle from Southampton on 2 January 1947. The company took over the King Line in 1949, and merged with Bullard King and Clan Line in 1956 to form British & Commonwealth Shipping . It merged with South African Marine Corporation in 1973 to create International Liner Services, but competition with air travel adversely affected its shipping activities, and cargo shipping rapidly became containerised . The final South African mail service arrived in Southampton on 24 October 1977, and International Liner Services withdrew from shipping in 1982. British & Commonwealth continued in other fields, and acquired Atlantic Computers in 1989, but accounting problems soon became apparent and British & Commonwealth
3740-432: The line's vessels were requisitioned for service as troop ships or hospital ships in the First World War, and eight were sunk by mines or German U-boats . The Royal Mail Line ran into financial difficulties in the 1930s, culminating in the prosecution of its director Lord Kylsant , and Union-Castle Line became an independent company again with Vernon Thomson as Managing Director. Many vessels were again requisitioned in
3808-461: The location has moved, but because the reference system used to measure it has shifted. Because any spatial reference system or map projection is ultimately calculated from latitude and longitude, it is crucial that they clearly state the datum on which they are based. For example, a UTM coordinate based on WGS84 will be different than a UTM coordinate based on NAD27 for the same location. Converting coordinates from one datum to another requires
3876-461: The longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich , England as the zero-reference line. The Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911. The latitude ϕ of a point on Earth's surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through (or close to)
3944-415: The melting of the ice sheets of the last ice age , but neighboring Scotland is rising by only 0.2 cm . These changes are insignificant if a local datum is used, but are statistically significant if a global datum is used. On the GRS 80 or WGS 84 spheroid at sea level at the Equator, one latitudinal second measures 30.715 m , one latitudinal minute is 1843 m and one latitudinal degree
4012-412: The old laundry chimney) as well as some ornamental pot plants and the iron boundary railing on Orange Street are all that remain of the Ross family homestead today. 1890 ( 1890 ) : The Mount Nelson property was purchased by shipping magnate Sir Donald Currie , owner of the Union-Castle Shipping Line . He aimed to build a hotel in Cape Town as elegant as those in London, to cater exclusively for
4080-9666: The original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 16 October 2014 . ^ "Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. to launch Belmond brand" . Archived from the original on 2014-03-28 . Retrieved 16 October 2014 . ^ "Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel, Cape Town - Cape Town Hotels - Cape Town, South Africa" . Forbes Travel Guide . Retrieved 2024-04-05 . 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4148-404: The suffix "Castle" in their names; the names of several inherited from the Union Line were changed to this scheme (for example, Galician became Glenart Castle ) but others (such as Galeka ) retained their original name. They were well known for the lavender-hulled liners with red funnels topped in black, running on a rigid timetable between Southampton and Cape Town . Every Thursday at 4pm
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#17328022048934216-560: Was a British shipping line that operated a fleet of passenger liners and cargo ships between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977. It was formed from the merger of the Union Line and Castle Shipping Line . It merged with Bullard King and Clan Line in 1956 to form British & Commonwealth Shipping , and then with South African Marine Corporation (commonly referred to as Safmarine ) in 1973 to create International Liner Services , but maintained its separate identity throughout. Its shipping operations ceased in 1977. The Union Line
4284-415: Was eventually to expire however, and the period of intense competition was later to give way to co-operation, including transporting troops and military equipment during the Boer War . Finally, on 8 March 1900, the Union Line and Castle Shipping Line merged, creating the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company, Ltd , with Castle Shipping Line taking over the fleet. Union-Castle named most of their ships with
4352-420: Was founded in 1853 as the Southampton Steam Shipping Company to transport coal from South Wales to Southampton . It was renamed the Union Steam Collier Company and then the Union Steamship Company. In 1857, renamed the Union Line, it won a contract to carry mail to South Africa, mainly the Cape Colony . The inaugural sailing of Dane left Southampton on 15 September. Meanwhile, Donald Currie had built up
4420-453: Was kept in a lead-lined coffin and preserved in brandy for four months until his ship reached Cape Town. He was buried with ceremony, and his tombstone can now be seen on the outer wall of Cape Town’s Groote Kerk . 1795 ( 1795 ) : Dominee Fleck of Cape Town’s Dutch Reformed Church purchased the main house on the central strip of land upon which Mount Nelson Hotel is now located. 1805 ( 1805 ) : Lord Horatio Nelson died at
4488-437: Was liquidated in 1990. In the 1950s and 60s the line operated a fleet of fifteen ships, eight on the principal weekly mail run from Southampton to Cape Town. Each ship could carry an average of two hundred First Class passengers and four hundred and fifty in Tourist Class. Six of the remaining ships operated the monthly Round Africa service, sailing both clockwise and anti-clockwise round the continent. The remaining ship operated
4556-538: Was originally built as a guesthouse, Green Park was originally a hostel for nursing staff, and Hof Villa was built as a private residence for the hotel manager. The Helmsley was originally the site of the first Jewish service in Cape Town (held in 1841) and thereafter it became the first Hebrew Congregation in South Africa. 2003-12 ( 2003-12 ) : The hotel opened Planet Bar, Librisa Spa, Planet Restaurant and Oasis bistro. 2014 ( 2014 ) : Orient-Express Hotels changed its name to Belmond Ltd. At that time
4624-549: Was purchased by Orient-Express Hotels. 1990 ( 1990 ) : A row of eight perfectly restored historic cottages on the hotel grounds were converted into the Garden Cottage Suites. 1993 ( 1993 ) : An electrical fire caused extensive damage to the hotel, resulting in it having to be closed for six months. 1996 ( 1996 ) : Mount Nelson Hotel acquired three historic buildings adjacent to Palm Avenue, and Helmsley Hotel, and all four buildings were restored and converted into guest accommodation. Taunton House Cottage
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