Cape Maclear, Malawi. This stunning location, devoid of tourist-crunch, speaks to typically colonial times in sub-Saharan Africa, when certain brave characters left their names attached to bridges, mountains and street names (even animals). One of them was Irishman Sir Thomas Maclear, who became her Majesty’s astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope in 1833. Wikipedia says he was “occupied in performing a geodesic survey for the purpose of recalculating the dimensions and shape of the Earth”. That would have been a helluva task back then, and speaks to things like glorious focus and not being distracted by a million devices. Maclear apparently became close friends with David Livingstone, obviously drawn together by their common interest in the exploration of Africa. The crater Maclear on the Moon is named after him, as is the so-named town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. Malawi to the Moon, who would’ve thought.
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Cape Maclear
