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Captain Robert Jacob Gordon of the Dutch East India Company travelled the Kraai River near the later town and had a panorama of the Camdeboo Mountains drawn from a koppie about 7 km from Aberdeen, later called Gordon’s koppie, near the N9 towards Graaff-Reinet. Source: Karoo Heartland — History of Aberdeen https://www.karooheartland.com/history-of-aberdeen/