Talk:Golden Gate Highlands National Park

Ambiguous wording
The phrase "The first examples of fossilised dinosaur eggs in the world," in Section 4 (Geology and palaeontology) is misleading, and in fact led to the erroneous claim in the August 17 "Did You Know..." section stating "that the first fossilised dinosaur eggs found in the world, which are also the oldest dinosaur embryos ever discovered, belong to Massospondylus and were found in Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa in 1978?"

The first fossilised dinosaur eggs *found* in the world were found July 13, 1923 by Roy Chapman Andrews http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Chapman_Andrews in Mongolia. Although they were initially misidentified as Protoceratops, the current identification of these fossilized eggs attributes them to Oviraptor, a theropod dinosaur.

The Massospondylus eggs are of Triassic age, and are certainly *older* than the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Oviraptor fossils, but they are certainly *not* the "first fossilised dinosaur eggs found."

Tadchem 12:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)


 * That's my mistake. Apologies to all, and thanks for spotting it Tadchem. Bláthnaid  15:52, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Park area
What is the actual park area? The introduction and the infobox both say that it covers an area of 41 km² (16 mi²). However in the section "Location" it is stated that "In 1963, 47.92 square kilometres (11,840 acres) were proclaimed as a national park, specifically to preserve the scenic beauty of the area. In 1981 the park was enlarged to 62.41 km² (15,420 acres) and in 1988 it was enlarged to 116.33 km² (28,746 acres).[5] In 2004 it was announced that the park would be joined with the neighbouring QwaQwa National Park.[6]", which implies a much larger area. Qblik talk 15:57, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Fixed. The park was amalgamated with QwaQwa National Park this year, increasing its area further. Thanks Qblik. Bláthnaid  19:07, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Hotel name changed
According to SANParks website http://www.sanparks.org/parks/golden_gate/ the name of the hotel was changed to "Golden Gate Hotel" (prev. "Brandwag Hotel") after extensive upgrading & refurbishments were done (around 2009?) 41.114.169.86 (talk) 13:48, 11 February 2012 (UTC) gert.coetzee2010@gmail.com

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