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- Toggle the table of contents. Tswaing crater. ... Memorial to Eugene Merle Shoemaker who showed that craters such as Tswaing are formed by impact.
- Tswaing, meaning “place of salt” in the Setswana language, is an ancient impact crater outside the metropolis of Pretoria in South Africa ’s Gauteng province.
- The result was the Tswaing Meteorite Crater, just over one kilometer in diameter, now a spectacular natural wonder with a salt lake at its heart.
- People have been living at Tswaing crater for more than 100,000 years but only in 1990 it was proved that this is impact crater.
- The hiking trail at the Tswaing Crater is fairly easy and takes walkers along the outskirts of the massive crater, and then down to the scenic lake in its bowl.
- In geological terms, the Tswaing Crater represents one of the youngest and best-preserved small bowl-shaped meteorite impact craters in the world.
- It was a cold winter’s morning, but we were getting quite hot as we walked along the rim of the Tswaing Crater.
- The name Tswaing means Place of Salt in Setswane, and refers to a saline lake that covers the crater floor.
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