1980

Number of annual visitors to the Kruger National Park: 1980–1990[1]
Year Total visitors
1979/1980 369 653
1984/1985 509 173
1989/1990 669 167
  • August – The Nyalaland Trail opens near Punda Maria in the far north of the Park.[2]

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.[3]

1983

  • August - The Bushman Trail opens.

1984

  • February 24 - Berg-en-Dal rest camp officially opens.[1]

1985

1988

  • July 11 - The Gonde-Gonde incident: a park vehicle detonated a landmine a few kilometres south of Pafuri. No one was hurt.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Joubert, Salomon, The Kruger National Park: A History Volume II, High Branching, Johannesburg, 2007
  2. ↑ Schreiber, Arrie (October 1988). "Ten years of trails in the Kruger National Park". CUSTOS. 17 (7): 20–23.
  3. ↑ 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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