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Kimberly Big Hole

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Comments (5)

Tessa Joughin on July 12, 2008

The Sky-Scrapers look so small and insignificant standing above this man-made hole! In 1866 the first diamond was found here and started South Africa's Diamond Rush. This hole was dug by hand, is 240 metres deep and yielded 3 tons of diamonds. It was closed in 1914.

ymmiJ Chen on August 3, 2008

Nice pic . Vited

ymmiJ

LeahNY on February 8, 2009

What an amazing pic... Just watching a show on S. Africa on public television here in NYC; simultaneously browsing G Earth -- stumbled across your amazing trove of pics. Thank you and congrats.

Tessa Joughin on February 9, 2009

Thank you so much for your kind comments!

Paul13 on October 29, 2009

Very nice shot congratulations.

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Photo details

  • Uploaded on July 12, 2008
  • © All Rights Reserved
    by Tessa Joughin
    • Camera: Noritsu SI-1080 Film Scanner Model DLS1640
    • Taken on 2002/09/17 12:09:41

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