Port Elizabeth

English

Etymology

In South Africa, named by Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin after his late wife, Elizabeth.

Proper noun

Port Elizabeth

  1. A city and port in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa, officially now named Gqeberha.
    • 2020 April 28, Christina Macfarlane, “‘There is nothing worse than hunger,’ says South Africa hero Siya Kolisi of helping townships during lockdown”, in CNN[1]:
      Growing up in the township of Zwide, just outside Port Elizabeth, bed for Kolisi was a pile of cushions on the living-room floor and finding enough to eat was a daily struggle.
  2. A town on Bequia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
  3. A census-designated place in Maurice River Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.
  4. A port or bay on Gilford Island, British Columbia, Canada.
  5. A resettled community in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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