Rising Star Cave

Rising Star Cave
Location in Gauteng
Rising Star Cave (South Africa)
Rising Star Cave (Gauteng)
LocationNear Krugersdorp in the West Rand municipality of Gauteng province, South Africa
EntrancesMany
Hazardsnarrow access

The Rising Star cave system (also known as Westminster or Empire cave) is located in the Malmani dolomites, in Bloubank River valley, about 800 meters (0.50 miles; 2,600 feet) 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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