Big Hole

The Kimberley Mine or Tim Kuilmine is an open-pit and underground mine in . It has been considered the deepest hole excavated by hand, contending the title with .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction with an elevation of 1,186 metres
  • Description: open-pit and underground mine in Kimberley, South Africa
  • Also known as: “Kimberley Mine”, “New Rush”, “Open Mine”, and “Tim Kuilmine”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sol Plaatje Museum and Kimberley railway station.

Museum
Photo: TwinMosia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The and Library is in Kimberley, , , in a house where Solomon T. Plaatje lived during his last years at 32 Angel Street, Malay Camp.

Railway station
Photo: Andre Kritzinger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the central railway station of the city of Kimberley, in the province of . Because Kimberley is the junction of the main – main line with another line from , it is served by several routes of the Shosholoza Meyl inter-city service.

Art gallery
The , in Kimberley, , was opened in 1952 and named after its principal benefactor, William Benbow Humphreys.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kimberley and Beaconsfield.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is the capital of the Province of . Amongst other things, it is famous for its Big Hole, the world's largest hand-dug excavation that was created when thousands of people searched for diamonds at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.

Suburb
is a suburb of Kimberley, South Africa, formerly known as Du Toit's Pan. was a separate borough from Kimberley itself until its amalgamation with the latter as the City of Kimberley in 1912. is situated 3 km southeast of Big Hole.

Big Hole

Latitude
-28.73924° or 28° 44′ 21″ south
Longitude
24.75855° or 24° 45′ 31″ east
Elevation
1,186 metres (3,891 feet)
Operator
De Beers
Open location code
5G367Q65+8C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 467535571
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­quarry
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6940506
Wiki­data ID
Q19040
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Big Hole” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Groot Gat”
  • Afrikaans: “Kimberly en die Groot Gat”
  • Arabic: “بيج هول”
  • Armenian: “Մեծ անցք”
  • Catalan: “Big Hole”
  • Cebuano: “Big Hole”
  • Chinese: “金伯利大洞”
  • Czech: “Big Hole”
  • Danish: “Big Hole”
  • Dutch: “Die Groot Gat”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Truo”
  • Finnish: “Big Hole”
  • French: “Big Hole”
  • Georgian: “დიდი ორმო”
  • German: “The Big Hole”
  • Hebrew: “החור הגדול”
  • Hungarian: “Big Hole”
  • Hungarian: “Kimberley Mine”
  • Hungarian: “Nagy Lyuk”
  • Indonesian: “Big Hole”
  • Indonesian: “Lubang Besar”
  • Indonesian: “The Big Hole”
  • Italian: “Big Hole”
  • Japanese: “ビッグホール”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Big Hole (gruve)”
  • Norwegian: “Big Hole”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Big Hole”
  • Persian: “چاله بزرگ”
  • Persian: “چالهٔ بزرگ”
  • Polish: “Wielka dziura”
  • Portuguese: “Big Hole”
  • Portuguese: “Mina de Kimberley”
  • Portuguese: “The Big Hole”
  • Russian: “Большая дыра в Кимберли”
  • Russian: “Большая дыра”
  • Russian: “Кимберлитовая трубка «Большая дыра»”
  • Spanish: “Big Hole”
  • Swedish: “Big Hole”
  • Tamil: “பெரும் துளை”
  • Tamil: “பெரும் துளைச் சுரங்கம்”
  • Turkish: “The Big Hole”
  • Ukrainian: “Велика діра”

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