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About This GigaPan
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Winch
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- 0.18 Gigapixels
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- Date added
- May 29, 2009
- Date taken
- May 28, 2009
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Canon SX10
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- new, pretoria, africa, south, monument, voortrekker, panorama, winch, buildings, winchd
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The Voortrekker Monument is a monument situated in the city of Pretoria, South Africa. The massive granite structure, built to honour the Voortrekkers (Pioneers) who left the Cape Colony in the thousands between 1835 and 1854, was designed by the architect Gerard Moerdijk who had the ideal to design a "monument that would stand a thousand years to describe the history and the meaning of the Great Trek to its descendants". It can be seen from almost any location in the city, as it is seated on a hilltop.
Physically, the Voortrekker Monument is 40 metres high, with a base of 40 metres by 40 metres. The building has strong architectural resemblance to German monuments, in particular the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig. The two main points of interest inside the building are the Historical Frieze and the Cenotaph.See "Voortrekker Monument Pretoria Inside" for inside.--Wikipedia
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