Witwatersrand
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/75342
- Note
- "The Witwatersrand (/vətˈvɑːtəsrɑːnt/) (locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a 56-kilometre-long (35 mi), north-facing scarp in South Africa. It consists of a hard, erosion-resistant quartzite metamorphic rock, over which several north-flowing rivers form waterfalls, which account for the name Witwatersrand, meaning "ridge of white waters" in Afrikaans. This east-west-running scarp can be traced with only one short gap, from Bedfordview (about 10 km [6 mi] west of O.R. Tambo International Airport) in the east, through Johannesburg and Roodepoort, to Krugersdorp in the west (see the diagram at left below)." - (en.wikipedia.org 30.06.2021)
- Latitude
- -26.203611373901
- Longitude
- 28.045278549194
- Time zone
- Africa/Johannesburg
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