Kamieskroon lies just off the N7 between Garies and Springbok and 20 km west of the Namaqua National Park. The village is set among the granite rock formations of the Kamiesberg range, and lies in the midst of the Northern Cape's flower route.
Kamies might derive from the Nama word "kam", meaning two - referring to the twin peaks of the mountain. The "kroon", a 330m peak crowned with a huge, cleft rock, is a kilometre from the village.
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The town's origins lie in the 1860s, 7km north of its present position. It took the name Bowesville (later Bowesdorp), after the district surgeon, Dr Henry Bowe. As there was little room to expand in the narrow kloof the town occupied, the church council decided, in 1924, to rebuild it at Kamieskroon.
