Museum
East London Museum
East London · Buffalo City
Best known for holding the first coelacanth ever identified by science, landed off the Chalumna River mouth in 1938, alongside natural history and Eastern Cape cultural collections.
The coelacanth story is genuinely worth the visit even if museums are not usually your thing.
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