The South African Navy mine countermeasures vessel SAS Umkomaas is named in honour of the river and town.

The Umkomaas or Mkomazi River is a dominant feature of the area, being the largest river on the South Coast.

A large number of Italian immigrants and workers, mostly from the region of Udine, followed suit, and the result is that today Umkomaas probably has the largest Italian community relative to its total population of any town in Southern Africa.

Umkomaas is most renowned for the superb diving opportunities created by the Aliwal Shoal, a coral reef about 5 kilometres offshore.

Umkomaas ' official animal is the Whale, representations of which can be found throughout the town, in the form of everything from colourful murals to the uniform of the local school.

It was purchased by international Pulp giant Sappi in the 1990s, and while it continues to provide jobs for thousands of workers, and a livelihood for their dependents, concerns were raised as early as the 1990s over the widespread asthma and other health conditions afflicting children at the nearby Umkomaas Drift School.

In South Africa races take place on the Trichardt Spruit, Umkomaas River, Bushmans River and As River.

Neighbouring towns include Pennington, Renishaw, Freeland Park, Umkomaas, Sezela, Bazley, Amahlongwa, Clansthal, Park Rynie and Dududu.

Most notorious of the above-mentioned cyclones was Cyclone Demoina of 1984 and the floods of 1987 which resulted in widespread flooding and infrastructural damage, including the destruction of the Old Main Road bridge from Durban and Umkomaas.

Most Scottburgh residents work for small local businesses or the state sector, while larger industries are located in the nearby towns of Umkomaas, Umzinto, and Sezela.

Umkomaas, a small coastal town on the subtropical south coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa was formed when a harbour was built in 1861 to export sugar.

Additional tourist attractions include the Umkomaas Golf Course, home of Tim Clark and widely regarded as being one of the best in KwaZulu-Natal, and the beautiful Empisini Nature Reserve, a forested area that features a delightful waterfall and a number of bush walks.

Suburbs of Umkomaas include Widenham, known for its colossal bush-covered sand dune known as " Sand City ", and the planned community of Saiccor Village, built for Saiccor workers in the 1950s and 1960s.

The crocodiles found in the vicinity of Freeland Park and the lower Amahlongwa, 8 kilometres south, are not present in Umkomaas.

Umkomaas was one of the coastal towns recently affected by the inclement weather conditions, high winds, and freak waves generated by the storms of late March 2007.

Seaside resort at the mouth of the Umzim-baza River, 37 km south-west of Durban, between Illovo Beach and Umkomaas.

Unofficially, Umzinto was at one time the ' Capital ' of Alexandra County, a district that also includes the areas and suburbs surrounding the towns of Scottburgh, Umkomaas, and Sezela-Pennington.

It then turns back towards the coast and passes through Pennington, Park Rynie, Scottburgh and Umkomaas before entering the greater Durban area at Kingsburgh.

Grantley Thomas Smart Goulding ( March 23, 1874 in Hartpury, Gloucestershire – 1944 in Umkomaas, Natal, South Africa ) was a British athlete.

From Port Shepstone it runs as a freeway past the resort towns of the Natal South Coast, including Umzumbe, Hibberdene, Ifafa Beach, Scottburgh, Umkomaas and Amanzimtoti, before passing on a bypass around the city of Durban.

Harry Austin Kitson ( Born 17 June 1874 Berkshire, England ; Died 30 November 1951 ( Umkomaas, South Africa ); was a male tennis player from South Africa.

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

Mynheer, Sir Francis, the valley society, the very smell of the river on his right purling along to the bay past fish weirs and rocks, and ahead the sleepy ribbon of moon-drenched road.

In 1992 – 1993 a research team headed by Tim White discovered the first A. ramidus fossils — seventeen fragments including skull, mandible, teeth and arm bones — from the Afar Depression in the Middle Awash river valley of Ethiopia.

North of the mineral region is the Cereal Belt, embracing the Tennessee Valley and the counties beyond, whose richest soils are the red clays and dark loams of the river valley ; north of which are less fertile soils, produced by siliceous and sandstone formations.

The western Sanhaja were divided into several tribes-the Gazzula and the Lamta in the Draa valley and the foothills of the Anti-Atlas range, further south, encamped in the western Sahara desert, were the Massufa, the Lamtuna and the Banu Warith, and most southerly of all, the Gudala ( or Judala ), in littoral Mauritania down to the borderlands of the Senegal river.

The old city of Aarau is situated on a rocky outcrop at a narrowing of the Aar river valley, at the southern foot of the Jura mountains.

The city is along the Nile River, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and branches into the low-lying Nile Delta region.

Fremont named the river flowing through the valley Carson River in honor of Christopher " Kit " Carson, the mountain man and scout he had hired for his expedition.

The city is situated in a high desert river valley approximately above sea level.

There, in the valley of the river Copiapó, Almagro took official possession of Chile and claimed it in the name of King Charles V.

It is situated at an altitude of 482 meters above sea level by the river Amper, with a boundary demarcated by lateral moraines formed during the last ice age and the Amper glacial valley.

The average annual deposit of arable soil through the course of the river valley amounted to some nine metres.

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Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".

Surrounded by hills in a river valley, Florence can be hot and humid from June to August.

Like the Douro bridge, the project involved a lengthy viaduct crossing the river valley as well as the river crossing, and Eiffel was given the job without any process of competitive tendering due to his success with the bridge over the Douro.

The broadest river valley, along the Río Ulúa near the Guatemalan border, is Honduras's most developed area.

While the river valley civilizations always had larger populations, the trading societies on the coast of the sea soon became the most prosperous, and rose to power.

The town is generally built upon a series of low hills rising to above sea level at " The Ridge " before falling back in the river valley further to the north.

In between the two lies a large plain in the valley of the Po, the largest river in Italy, which flows eastward from the Cottian Alps to the Adriatic.

The aridization period that lasted for a millennium from the end of the 2nd millennium to the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE caused depopulation of the arid belts and river valley oasis areas, their population moved north to the forest-steppe zone.

Lesotho can be roughly divided into three geographic regions: the lowlands, following the southern banks of the Caledon River, and in the Senqu river valley ; the highlands formed by the Drakensberg and Maloti mountain ranges in the east and central parts of the country ; and the foothills that form a divide between the lowlands and the highlands.

Immediately above it, the river has been dammed to form a hydroelectric reservoir extending some up the valley.