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  • Location: Eastern Cape/South Africa
  • Variant names: Port Frances
Founded in 1825 and named after the wife of Colonel Henry Somerset, son of Lord Charles Somerset, governor of Cape Colony (1814–26). The name was changed as a result of the visit in 1860 by Prince Albert (1844–1900), Queen Victoria's† second son.

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