South Africa · 19th century
Fort Schanskop ranks #8,427 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #3 of the 4 mapped in South Africa. Founded 1897, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how South Africa compares in the castle statistics.
Fort Schanskop is a (former) fort in Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa, on the grounds of the Voortrekker Monument. Today it houses the "Anglo-Boer War Museum" and documents the Second Boer War and the following years up to 1914.
Machine-translated from “Fort Schanskop” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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