Region between the Swartkops and Coega Rivers near Port Elizabeth. Named after a Dutch East India Company Ship, which was wrecked in a storm in the English Channel, on 26 December 1749. The settlement Amsterdamhoek was also named after that ship.
Geolocation
25° 25' 12", -33° 28' 48"
References
New Dictionary of South African Place Names by Peter E. Rape
Further Reading