Protected heritage site · Gauteng
Bolt's Farm
Bolt's Farm is a protected heritage site in Gauteng, about 38 km north-west of Johannesburg. It covers 0,37 km² — number 7 by size of the 15 Gauteng areas with a recorded size.
0,4km² recorded size
—year established
—elevation of the point
38 kmnorth-west of Johannesburg
Facts
- Type
- Protected heritage site (paleontological site, archaeological site)
- Province
- Gauteng
- Local municipality
- Mogale City
- Size
- 0,37 km² · 37 ha
- Rank by size
- 96 of 115 nationally · 7 in Gauteng
- Designations
- national heritage site of South Africa
- Part of
- Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs
- Coordinates
- -26.0272, 27.7161
- Nearest large town
- Johannesburg, 38 km north-west
Sources: Wikidata Q98004750 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
SterkfonteinProtected heritage site2 km north-east
Coopers CaveProtected heritage site · 0 km²3 km north-east- Blougat Municipal Nature ReserveNature reserve6 km south
- Minnaar's CavesProtected heritage site · 0 km²7 km north-east
DrimolenProtected heritage site · 0 km²8 km north-east
Plovers LakeProtected heritage site · 0 km²8 km north-east
GBIF records within 2 km
Wildlife recorded around Bolt's Farm
394 mammal and 9 371 bird occurrence records within 2 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Australopithecus robustus17
- Black-backed JackalCanis mesomelas9
- LeopardPanthera pardus7
- Plains ZebraEquus quagga5
- SteenbokRaphicerus campestris5
- Common ElandTaurotragus oryx5
- Procavia transvaalensis5
- Equus capensis5
- Brown HyenaHyaena brunnea4
- Spotted HyenaCrocuta crocuta4
- Cape PorcupineHystrix africaeaustralis4
- African Clawless OtterAonyx capensis3
- MeerkatSuricata suricatta3
- Sable AntelopeHippotragus niger3
Birds
- Southern FiscalLanius collaris231
- Southern Masked WeaverPloceus velatus199
- Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis195
- Crowned LapwingVanellus coronatus192
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis192
- Common MynaAcridotheres tristis188
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash183
- Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus181
- Dark-capped BulbulPycnonotus tricolor174
- White-browed Sparrow-WeaverPlocepasser mahali170
- Cape StarlingLamprotornis nitens168
- Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris166
- Cape SparrowPasser melanurus157
- Cattle EgretBubulcus ibis149
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.