25.7833°S, 30.5167°E.
Stone arrangement on the escarpment of the Mpumalanga Highlands, South Africa, near the town of Kaapsehoop. The site consists of three large standing stones aligned to the cardinal directions and the equinox sunrise, set within a larger ring of smaller dolerite stones. The largest standing stone is approximately 2 metres tall. The site was brought to public attention by South African pilot Johan Heine in 2003 and named by author Michael Tellinger; conventional archaeology dates the surrounding stone walls to the late Iron Age (1500–1800 CE) and identifies them as Bokoni cattle-kraal terracing. Tellinger's older-date claims are not accepted by mainstream South African archaeology. The site lies in a region containing thousands of kilometres of dry-stone terracing visible from satellite, mapped extensively by archaeologist Peter Delius.
The Mpumalanga escarpment hides one of the densest pre-colonial dry-stone landscapes on Earth — most of which was unmapped until satellite imagery made it visible.
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|---|---|---|
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| angkor wat | 70.34° | 9,029 km |
| nazca | 249.72° | 10,808 km |
| teotihuacan | 273.17° | 14,836 km |
| stonehenge | 340.07° | 9,152 km |
| gobekli tepe | 7.23° | 7,076 km |
| machu picchu | 252.27° | 10,660 km |
| easter island | 218.83° | 12,733 km |
| cahokia | 299.96° | 14,377 km |
| sedona | 294.66° | 16,312 km |
| mecca | 11.32° | 5,357 km |
| jerusalem | 4.45° | 6,435 km |
| vatican | 345.57° | 7,777 km |
| lhasa | 50.02° | 8,918 km |
| kailash | 43.27° | 8,307 km |
| uluru | 117.11° | 9,735 km |
| tiwanaku | 251.02° | 10,116 km |
| chaco canyon | 296.29° | 15,959 km |
| mt shasta | 311.47° | 17,015 km |
| levis stadium | 303.10° | 17,154 km |