Gauteng
West Rand District Municipality
Mogale City

Cooper’s Cave

Cooper's Cave is a series of fossil-bearing breccia filled cavities. The cave is located almost exactly between the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of and Kromdraai and about 40 kilometres northwest of , and has been declared a South African National Heritage Site.
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  • Type: Cave
  • Description: cave in South Africa
  • Also known as: “Coopers”, “Coopers Cave”, “Coopers Site”, and “Copers Cave”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kromdraai fossil site.

Paleontological site
Photo: Profberger, CC BY 2.5.
Kromdraai is a fossil-bearing breccia-filled cave located about 2 kilometres east of the well-known South African hominid-bearing site of and about 45 kilometres northwest of , . is situated 480 metres northeast of Cooper’s Cave.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Munsieville and Krugersdorp.

Suburb
is a township situated in the area in Gauteng Province, . It grew out of the informal settlements inhabited by mine laborers on the outskirts of the original mining town of Krugersdorp. is situated 7 km south of Cooper’s Cave.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
Krugersdop is a town in 's province to the west of . has a modern business centre and shopping malls alongside many smaller shops, schools, and necessary amenities.

Cooper’s Cave

Latitude
-26.01329° or 26° 0′ 48″ south
Longitude
27.74562° or 27° 44′ 44″ east
Open location code
5G59XPPW+M6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9645333908
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cave_entrance
Wiki­data ID
Q5167942
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“Cooper’s Cave” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كهف كوبر”
  • Catalan: “Cova de Cooper”
  • Chinese: “庫珀洞穴”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كهف كوبر”
  • French: “grotte de Cooper”
  • French: “Grotte de Cooper”
  • Italian: “Grotte di Cooper”
  • Spanish: “Cueva de Cooper”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cooper’s Cave”. Photo: Profberger, CC BY 2.5.