100 The Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 
Place. Distance from Time of 
Central Line. Greatest Eclipse. 
Gee 
Miles. H. M. 
Danger Point - - - - 5 2 45 
Swellendam - - - : 2 2 47 
Ladismith - - - . - ri 2 49 
Prince Albert’ - - - - 0 2 50 
Middleburg - - - - 8 2 d4 
Steynsburg - - - - - 3 2 55 
Burghersdorp~ - - - - 4 2 5d 
Aliwal North - - - - 8 2 56 
Herschel - - - - - 2 Py 5 
Giant’s Kop - - . - 4 2 59 
Greytown, Natal - . - 8 3 1 
Ulundi, Zululand - - = 5 3 2 
The duration of annular eclipse along the central line will be only 
forty seconds. 
At Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Caledon, Bredasdorp, Mossel 
Bay, Oudtshoorn, Beaufort West, Murraysburg, Graaff-Reinet, Cradock 
Molteno, Weenen, and Pietermaritzburg, the eclipse will be well seen, 
more than nine-tenths of the sun’s disc being obscured. 
(10) Total Eclipse of November 12, 1966. 
The central line of this eclipse passes about 550 miles south of 
Cape Colony. Along the south coast the amount of eclipse will be 
seven-tenths, being greatest along the coast from Port Elizabeth to 
Kast London. 
At the Orange River the eclipse will be about one half. The eclipse 
is greatest in the Colony between four o’clock and a quarter past four. 
(11) Annular Eclipse of April 18, 1977. 
This annular eclipse passes over the least-known portions of South 
Africa during the afternoon of April 18, 1977. 
The central line touches South Africa at a point 150 miles north of 
Walfish Bay. It then passes north-east through North Damaraland, 
Ovampoland ; crosses the Zambesi at Libonta in the Barotse country ; 
passes between Lake Moero and Lake Bangweolo ; crosses the Stevenson 
Road between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyassa, and finally passes 
off the continent a little north of Zanzibar. 
At Cape Town the sun will be scarcely half eclipsed, and in the 
eastern provinces and in Natal the eclipse will be even smaller. 
