Pilanesberg
Sign in to saveThe Pilanesberg (formerly Pilandsberg) is a mountain in the North West Province, South Africa. The mountain is an ancient volcanic structure, circular in shape, that rises from flat surrounding plains. It is formed by three concentric ridges or rings of hills, of which the outermost has a diameter of about 24 km. The Pilanesberg is located 100 km to the North-West of Pretoria and is for the greater part enclosed in a protected area known as Pilanesberg National Park.
Key facts
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- Pilanesberg
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- ISS017-E-6869pilanesberg.jpg
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- NASA picture of Pilanesberg with Vaalkop Dam on the right side
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- 1687
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- South Africa
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- Location in South Africa
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- 270
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- left
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- List of mountains in South Africa
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- North West Province
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- Witwatersrand
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- Extinct volcano
- Mountain.age
- Proterozoic
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The Pilanesberg (formerly Pilandsberg) is a mountain in the North West Province, South Africa. The mountain is an ancient volcanic structure, circular in shape, that rises from flat surrounding plains. It is formed by three concentric ridges or rings of hills, of which the outermost has a diameter of about 24 km. The Pilanesberg is located 100 km to the North-West of Pretoria and is for the greater part enclosed in a protected area known as Pilanesberg National Park.
The Elands River flows South of the Pilanesberg in an Easterly direction. There are a number of platinum mines right at the perimeter of the crater formation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pilanesberg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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