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13 unusual facts about Kruger National Park


Alfred Dunhill Championship

In addition, the event was moved to the Leopard Creek Golf Club, just south of the Kruger National Park in Malalane, Mpumalanga.

Dale Steyn

Steyn grew up in the small town of Phalaborwa on the border of the world-famous wildlife haven, the Kruger National Park.

Denel Dynamics Seeker

In December 2012, Denel Dynamics deployed a Seeker II against rhinoceros poachers in Kruger National Park.

Knysna elephants

In the 1990s in an effort to bolster the numbers, some juvenile elephants were introduced from the Kruger National Park.

Lion hunting

In the 1890s, over 4000 lions were killed both inside and outside Kruger National Park in an effort to boost game populations.

Maculele

Makulele (region), Makulele Area, Makuleke Region, or Pafuri Triangle of the Kruger National Park.

Micro Aviation B22 Bantam

A hundred Bantams were sold for use by park rangers in Kruger National Park in South Africa.

Phil Liggett

He spends most of his leisure time in South Africa where he has a house in the Western Cape and a game farm near the Kruger National Park.

Plateosauravus

More than a dozen additional partial skeletons have been found in the Kruger National Park after a discovery by game warden Adriaan Louw on 27 March 1995.

Sikhuphe International Airport

It is part of King Mswati III's $1bn millennium project investment initiative to enhance Swaziland's position as a tourist destination, serving as a tourism gateway to Swaziland's game parks, Victoria Falls, Maputo, the Kruger National Park and KwaZulu-Natal game reserves.

South African Class 24 2-8-4

Some eventually also worked on the Selati line past Skukuza in the Kruger National Park and in 1969 and 1970, during the last years of their service life, also briefly on the Hutchinson to Calvinia line in the Karoo.

South African wireless community networks

The project is testing if a rural community can take ownership of the network, with a trial community-run WUG near the Kruger National Park in the Mpumalanga Province.

Tjololo

On October 2007 he was found injured by rangers at Mala Mala, where he was darted in order to be treated by vets at Kruger National Park.


Valdezia

Historically, the natural home of the Tsonga people is in the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park in Northern KwaZulu Natal stretching north into Maputo and in today's Kruger National Park.