WEST COAST FOSSIL PARK
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A world-renowned site for the discovery of fossilized bones dating back 150,000 to 75,000 years and the bones of the Saldanha Man.
50 km east of Saldanha, the Elandsfontein site is world famous for its fossils. In 1953, Ronald Singer, a palaeontologist at the South African Museum, discovered a graveyard of extinct species in the dunes. Around what was once a lake, he was able to collect more than 6,000 fossilized bones between 150,000 and 75,000 years old, as well as the bones of the "Saldanha Man", of the Homo sapiens type. A little further north, the Langebaanweg phosphate deposit is renowned for its wealth. When mining ceased in 1995, the site was classified as a national monument.
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