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1980

Number of annual visitors to the Kruger National Park: 1980–1990
Year Total visitors
1979/1980 369 653
1980/1981 428 840
1981/1982 463 853
1983/1984 451 780
1984/1985 509 173
1989/1990 669 167
  • August – The Nyalaland Trail opens near Punda Maria in the far north of the Park.

1981

  • April 21 – A research team collects specimens of the African lungfish Protopterus annectens brieni Poll in a small pan in the Pumbe sandveld on the border with Mozambique. This is the first record of this species in the Park as well as the Republic of South Africa.

1983

  • August - The Bushman Trail opens.

1984

  • February 24 - Berg-en-Dal rest camp officially opens.

1985

1988

  • July 11 - The Gonde-Gonde incident: a park vehicle detonated a landmine a few kilometres south of Pafuri. No one was hurt.

See also

References

  1. ^ Joubert, Salomon, The Kruger National Park: A History Volume II, High Branching, Johannesburg, 2007
  2. Paynter, David, Die Krugerwildtuin in Woord en Beeld, Macmillan Suid-Afrika Uitgewers, 1986.
  3. Schreiber, Arrie (October 1988). "Ten years of trails in the Kruger National Park". CUSTOS. 17 (7): 20–23.
  4. Pienaar, U. de V. (1981). "Another important Ichthyological find in the Kruger National Park". Koedoe. 24 (1): 189–191. doi:10.4102/koedoe.v24i1.628.
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