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East London

East London is a port city located on the southeast coast of South Africa at the mouth of the Buffalo River. It is the site of the East London Museum, where Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer worked as curator during her 1938 discovery of the first living coelacanth. The city's proximity to the Chalumna River, where the original specimen was caught, made it the starting point for the modern scientific study of one of the world's most famous biological enigmas.

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