SUTHERLAND AND THE KAROO
here’s a good reason why international scientists have chosen to build some of the world’s biggest telescopes in the Karoo: we have extraordinarily dark skies for optical telescopes like the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) near Sutherland, and we have unpopulated yet accessible areas suitable for radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array near Carnarvon. You can visit SALT during the day (check out for details), and
