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Golden Gate Highlands national Park
Vredefort Dome
The Maluti Mountains
Free State national Botanical Gardens
The Phakisa Raceway
Bloemfontein
Basotho Cultural Village
National Museum Bloemfontein
Gariep Dam Nature Reserve
Timeless Thabo Mofutsanyana |
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South Africa's Free State province boasts some of the most impressive rock features in the world. It is most renowned for the mighty sandstone cliffs that tower above the Golden Gate Highlands National Park and the hills at Vredefort that form part of a pre-historic meteorite impact crater. The northern Free State's Vredefort Dome is the impact site of a major meteorite, believed to have struck earth two billion years ago. Scientists gauge that the meteorite was 10km in diameter, larger than South Africa's Table Mountain.
It is estimated the impact vaporised 70 cubic kilometres of rock, leaving a 300km-diameter crater. This crater is now represented by a ring of hills, northwest of the impact point, called the Vredefort Hills. |
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