Pilanesburg National Park, South Africa
Some 1 300 million years
ago, what is now South Africa's North-West Province was a
very different place. The solid part of Planet Earth was
still locked in a single land mass, a supercontinent
wracked by volcanic activity.At the centre of the supercontinent, thrusting up through the rock formations of what was to become Africa, the first lava cone broke the surface. Successive eruptions pushed lava flows up, and out, until a massive volcano towered as high, if not higher, than any on Earth today. The Pilanesberg had arrived.
