🌬️ Rising Star Cave

South Africa · Africa · 26.02°S, 27.71°E

The Rising Star cave system is located in the Malmani dolomites, in Bloubank River valley, about 800 meters southwest of Swartkrans, part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa. Recreational caving has occurred there since the 1960s. In 2015, fossils found there two years prior were determined to be a previously unknown extinct species of hominin named Homo naledi.

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Quick facts

Country	South Africa
Continent / region	Africa
Coordinates (approx.)	26.02°S, 27.71°E · view on map

Rising Star Cave is located in South Africa, in Africa.

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