{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}} {{Use South African English|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Clarkson | pushpin_map = South Africa Eastern Cape#South Africa | coordinates = {{coord|34.010|S|24.341|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [[South Africa]] | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = [[Eastern Cape]] | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = [[Sarah Baartman District Municipality|Sarah Baartman]] | subdivision_type3 = Municipality | subdivision_name3 = [[Kou-Kamma Local Municipality|Kou-Kamma]] | subdivision_type4 = Main Place | established_title = Established | leader_title = Councillor | area_footnotes = <ref name="census2011">{{cite web |url=http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/269015 |title = Main Place Clarkson |work=Census 2011}} </ref> | area_total_km2 = 2.27 | population_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | population_total = 1824 | population_as_of = 2011 | population_density_km2 = auto <!-- demographics (section 1) --> | demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011) | demographics1_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | demographics1_title1 = [[Bantu peoples of South Africa|Black African]] | demographics1_info1 = 40.3% | demographics1_title2 = [[Coloureds|Coloured]] | demographics1_info2 = 58.4% | demographics1_title3 = [[Indian South African|Indian]]/[[Asian South African|Asian]] | demographics1_info3 = 0.1% | demographics1_title4 = [[White South African|White]] | demographics1_info4 = 0.2% | demographics1_title5 = Other | demographics1_info5 = 1.0% <!-- demographics (section 2) --> | demographics_type2 = [[First language]]s (2011) | demographics2_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | demographics2_title1 = [[Afrikaans]] | demographics2_info1 = 63.3% | demographics2_title2 = [[Xhosa language|Xhosa]] | demographics2_info2 = 33.3% | demographics2_title3 = [[Sotho language|Sotho]] | demographics2_info3 = 1.4% | demographics2_title4 = [[South African English|English]] | demographics2_info4 = 1.2% | demographics2_title5 = Other | demographics2_info5 = 0.9% <!-- blank fields (section 2) --> <!-- Other information --> | timezone1 = [[South African Standard Time|SAST]] | utc_offset1 = +2 | postal_code_type = [[List of postal codes in South Africa|Postal code]] (street) | postal_code = | postal2_code_type = [[Post-office box|PO box]] | postal2_code = 6302 | area_code_type = [[Telephone numbers in South Africa|Area code]] | area_code = 042 }} '''Clarkson''' is a town in [[Kou-Kamma Local Municipality]] in the [[Eastern Cape]] province of [[South Africa]].
[[Moravian Church|Moravian]] Mission village in the former [[Humansdorp]] district, 26 km south-east of [[Assegaaibos]] station and 60 km west of Humansdorp. A mission station was established by Bishop Hans Peter Hallbeck in 1839 and named after [[Thomas Clarkson]] who helped abolish the slave-trade.<ref name=dosapn>{{cite book|last=Raper|first=Peter E.|title=Dictionary of Southern African Place Names|url=https://archive.org/stream/DictionaryOfSouthernAfricanPlaceNames/SaPlaceNames#page/n118/mode/2up|publisher=Internet Archive|accessdate=28 August 2013|page=118|year=1987}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sahistory.org.za/places/clarkson|title=Clarkson, Eastern Cape | South African History Online}}</ref>
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{{EasternCape-geo-stub}} {{Cacadu District Municipality}}
[[Category:Populated places in the Kou-Kamma Local Municipality]]