Sutherland (South Africa)

Sutherland
	Sutherland
	Sutherland
Coordinates	32 ° 24 ′ S , 20 ° 40 ′ E Coordinates: 32 ° 24 ′ S , 20 ° 40 ′ E
Basic data
Country	South Africa
province	North Cape
District	Namakwa
ISO 3166-2	ZA-NC
local community	Karoo Hoogland
height	1450 m
Residents	2836 (2011)
founding	1858
	The domed building of the SALT

Sutherland is a small town in the Karoo Hoogland municipality , Namakwa District , Northern Cape Province in the Republic of South Africa . It is located 120 kilometers north of Matjiesfontein . In 2011 Sutherland had 2,836 inhabitants. The city is named after the Reverend Henry Sutherland from Worcester .

Attractions

The main attraction is the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), about 20 kilometers outside .

Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw (1906–1970), South African writer and literary scholar