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monster to challenge man and machine and limits to everyone’s taste buds. Mier’s rich cultural heritage adds
see if they can reach 1 600 km/h. One of the interest- to its diverse range of meals.
ing parts is that they had to design a wheel that would
be able to run at that speed without disintegrating. This One of the world’s most ancient and intriguing tribes,
pan is the world’s biggest and firmest of its kind and the Khomani San, own farms in the Mier area.
over the 2 km the elevation change is a mere 60 mm.
For civil engineering it would have produced a severe
challenge to achieve such a small tolerance on a road. 30°00’36.97” S, 21°05’15.97” E
To clear this stretch 6 000 tons of small stones had to
be picked up by hand.
19. The Square kilometre Array (SKA) near
Mier is a municipality bigger than the Free State Prov- Carnarvon is a series of radio telescopes that will hook
ince, situated adjacent to one of the world’s largest up with a host of similar facilities in other countries
conservation areas, the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in to provide the most powerful views of the universe.
the Northern Cape. Together with the existing Meerkat, another series of
telescopic dishes, civil engineering also made huge
One of the greatest and biggest assets of Mier is the contributions to establish these scientific stations in
rich culture and history of its people. A variety of terms of infrastructure of various sorts.
gastronomic foods and meals can be found here. From
tripe to sheep heads, there is something here for 30°73’94.75” S, 21°44’29.09” E

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