[1] The pass is named after Queen Victoria’s fourth child, Prince Alfred, who was the first member of the British Royal family to visit South Africa in 1860.

[3] This spectacular road is considered one of Thomas Bain’s greatest engineering achievements and can be found on route R399.

De Vlugt[4] is the hamlet on the pass, that Thomas Bain and his family stayed in while he supervised construction.

[6][clarification needed] Just outside the village are another set of notable tracks, those of English naturalist William Burchell, who collected 63 000 specimens in his custom built wagon, when he visited the country, in 1811.

[7] The pass is the central feature of a 100km solo mountain bike race, which starts in Uniondale and ends in Knysna.