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Tswaing Crater
The Tswaing Crater was created about 220,000 years ago by a chondrite or stony meteorite, which is some 30 to 50 meter in diameter that hit the earth. There is a small lake in the center of the crater that is filled by a spring and rainwater. Stone tools from the Stone Age show that in order to hunt and collect salt, the crater was regularly visited by people. The local Tswana tribes call the region Tswaing which means “Place of Salt” while the European settlers named the region Zoutpan (Salt Pan).
