Only show
results for:

Topics related to "Kalahari Desert"

Namaqualand
Namaqualand or Namaland , region, c.150,000 sq mi (388,500 sq km), SW Africa. It extends from Windhoek, Namibia, in the north to Northern Cape, South Africa, in the south and from the Namib Desert in the west to the Kalahari Desert in the east. The Orange River divides the region into Great Nama... Read more
Simpson Desert
Simpson Desert c.50,000 sq mi (130,000 sq km), barren region of central Australia, predominantly in the southeastern portion of the Northern Territory, extending S into Queensland and E into South Australia. Long, parallel sand dunes, up to 150 ft (46 m) high and 1,500 ft (457 m) apart, run for mil... Read more
desert
desert arid region, usually partly covered by sand, having scanty vegetation or sometimes almost none, and capable of supporting only a limited and specially adapted animal population. The so-called cold deserts, caused by extreme cold and often covered with perpetual snow or ice, are quite distinc... Read more
desertion
desertion in law, the forsaking of a station involving public or social duties without justification and with the intention of not returning. In military law, it is the abandonment of (or failure to arrive at) a place of duty without leave; in time of war, especially in the face of the enemy, deser... Read more
Painted Desert
Painted Desert badlands on the northeastern bank of the Little Colorado River, NE Ariz., stretching c.200 mi (320 km) SE from the Grand Canyon; includes Petrified Forest National Park. Striking bands of color result from irregularly eroded layers of red and yellow sediment and bentonite clay. ... Read more
Black Rock Desert
Black Rock Desert arid region of lava beds and alkali flats, NW Nev., in Toiyabe National Forest, stretching c.70 mi (110 km) NE from Gerlach. The Jackson Mts. rise to the east; the Black Rock Range to the west. A land speed record was set there in 1983. The desert has been the site of the Burning ... Read more
oasis
oasis , an area within a desert where the water table reaches the surface, with enough moisture to permit the growth of vegetation. The water may come up to the surface in springs, or it may collect in mountain hollows. In deserts such as the Sahara, artificial oases have been successfully created b... Read more
Kara Kum
Kara Kum , two deserts, one in Kazakhstan and one in Turkmenistan. The Caspian Kara Kum or Garagum, the larger desert (c.115,000 sq mi/297,900 sq km), is W of the Amu Darya River and includes most of Turkmenistan. The Murghab and Tejen rivers flow out of the Hindu Kush Mts. to the south and empty in... Read more
Orange River
Orange River chief river of S Africa, c.1,300 mi (2,090 km) long, rising in the Maluti Mts., N Lesotho. It flows SW through Lesotho, then meanders northwest and west through central South Africa, forming the SW boundary of Free State and part of the South Africa-Namibia line before entering the Atl... Read more
Paran
Paran , desert, the eastern region of the Sinai peninsula. In accounts in the Bible, Ishmael settled there. It was also the Israelites' first resting place after their stay at Sinai, and the refuge of David when Samuel died. ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Kalahari Desert"

Kalahari
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Kalahari Desert region in s Africa, covering parts of Botswana , Namibia and South Africa...desert, and it is possible to graze animals during the rainy season. The Kalahari is inhabited by the San , as well as by Africans and Europeans primarily... Read more
desert
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...with 25 to 50cm (10–20in) of rainfall are semi-deserts. Cold deserts, areas almost permanently covered with snow or ice, extend over one-sixth of the Earth's surface, and hot deserts over one-fifth. Most desert regions lie in the horse latitudes between 20° and 30° n and s of the ... Read more
desert dunes
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth desert dunes Deserts are often imagined to be blanketed in sand dunes, but although almost half of the Australian deserts are sand covered, globally only about 20 per cent of drylands...blowing sand sheets and dunes. Indeed, only 1 per cent of desert areas in the Americas are composed of sand ... Read more
Namaqualand
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...from Windhoek, Namibia, in the north to Northern Cape, South Africa, in the south and from the Namib Desert in the west to the Kalahari Desert in the east. The Orange River divides the region into Great Namaqualand (in Namibia) and Little Namaqualand... Read more
Cultural Imperialism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy ...humorous yet moving film The Gods Must Be Crazy narrates the story of what happens when a pilot flying across the Kalahari Desert of Botswana drops a Coca-Cola bottle into the midst of a tribal group. The confused aboriginals explain the object... Read more
Griqualand, East and West
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...by the Griqua people, was annexed to Cape Colony in 1871 after diamonds had been found there. It is south of the Kalahari desert. The chief town is Kimberley. It now forms part of Cape Province (South Africa). Griqualand East was annexed to Cape... Read more
Devil's Claw
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine ...whose fruit looks like a giant claw. The plant grows in an arid climate and is found in Namibia, Madagascar, the Kalahari Desert, and other areas on the African continent. The tuberous roots are used in traditional medicine. The root is collected... Read more
Botswana
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography ...of the country except for the Kalahari Desert, in the south, which receives...border into Namibia, is the Kalahari Desert. In the north lies the area...into Lake Xau. 8 DESERTS The Kalahari Desert lies in the western portion... Read more
David Livingstone
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1841 to 1852, while a medical missionary for the London Missionary Society in what is now Botswana, he crossed the Kalahari desert and reached (1849) Lake Ngami. He discovered the Zambezi River in 1851. Hoping to abolish the slave trade by opening... Read more
Namibia
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...meaning "shield" used for the coastal desert, the Namib, which long protected the...dunes and gravel plains of the Namib desert. Inland, the hills and plains of the...savannah, gradually transforming into the Kalahari semi-desert to the east. The flat north-central...characteristics of Namibia: ... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "Kalahari Desert"

Kalahari Desert
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Kalahari Desert a high, vast, arid plateau in southern Africa north of the Orange River, comprising most of Botswana with parts in Namibia and South Africa. Read more
desert
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology desert A major terrestrial biome characterized by low rainfall. Hot deserts, such as the Sahara and Kalahari deserts of Africa, have a rainfall of less than 25...up to 36°C). Vegetation is sparse, and desert plants are adapted to conserve water and take... Read more
Bushman
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...x259;n / • n. ( pl. -men ) 1. a member of any of several aboriginal peoples of southern Africa, esp. of the Kalahari Desert. They are traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherers. Also called San . 2. the language of these peoples, now usually... Read more
Namibia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Caprivi Strip, reaches between Angola and Botswana to Zambia. In the west the Namibia Desert stretches down the Atlantic Ocean coast; in the east is the Kalahari. The higher land between is also hot and arid and has no permanent rivers. Economy... Read more
Botswana
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...drains into a swampy basin, the Okavango, the only surface water in the country. The centre and west is covered by the Kalahari Desert, while in the east is a large salt-pan, the Makgadikgadi. Economy Diamonds are the chief export, producing revenues... Read more
Africa
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...climate and landscape are vast. Most of northern Africa is desert, the only significant waterway being the Nile. The west, watered...River are more highlands, giving way in the south-west to the Kalahari Desert. Then the land rises again, to the temperate veld. This good... Read more

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

Marathon across Kalahari desert.
Newspaper article from: Hebden Bridge Times (Hebden Bridge, England); 12/2/2007; 246 words ; ...first four-man crew to row an Oceans Fours boat across the atlantic has completed a 155 mile marathon across the Kalahari desert. Iain Lomas, who was given the nickname Yorkie in the Marines because of his Yorkshire roots, came 4th in the tough... Read more
Spectacular minerals from the Kalahari manganese field, South Africa.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Rocks & Minerals; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...located just south of the great Kalahari Desert on the vast plains of the Northern...this southernmost part of the Kalahari Desert is semiarid and distinctly continental...landscape of the southernmost Kalahari Desert is that of a sand-covered inland... Read more
Research stories from the Kalahari.(Where Global Contradictions are Sharpest: Research Stories from the Kalahari)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...prominently featured, the extended Kruiper family of the Kalahari (this against the acknowledged perception that the Kruipers...special edition of Visual Anthropology, Encounters in the Kalahari , in which he contributed extensively on aspects of...American-become-Bushman shaman vowing, mystically, never to ... Read more
THE DESERTS OF AFRICA.(Review)
Magazine article from: African Business; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Sahara, the three deserts of the Rift Valley, the Kalahari and the Namib. His...points out that the Kalahari is not a genuine desert. Although a number...are defined as semi-desert, the largest part of the Kalahari is thorn bush and... Read more
Tayler, Jeffrey. Glory in a camel's eye; a perilous trek through the greatest African desert.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 5/1/2005; ; 332 words ; ...camel's eye; a perilous trek through the greatest African desert. Houghton Mifflin, Mariner. 245p. c2003. 0-618-49222-4. $14.00. SA * Deserts have a visceral hold on the imagination. The Kalahari, the Gobi, and the Empty Quarter all have their fans, but when it comes to the real desert nearly ... Read more
A DAY in the LIFE: DESERTS.(facts about deserts)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science World; 3/8/1999; 700+ words ; ...above) have normal body temperatures, and radiate excess desert heat from blood vessels in their large ears, like heat...HIGH AND DRY The saguaro cacti in Arizona's Sonoran Desert can reach heights up to 12 meters (40 ft). That's two...contains 1,650 species, and are native only to American deserts. HOW ... Read more
Walvis Bay Corridor Group--desert pioneers: the Walvis Bay Corridor Group is an ambitious project that links several transport and logistics systems in southern and central Africa all eventually converging on the port of Walvis Bay in Namibia. Tom Nevin describes the system.(Special Report)
Magazine article from: African Business; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Corridors in the group include the Walvis Bay Corridor, Trans Kalahari Corridor, Trans Caprivi corridor and Trans Cunene Corridor...gateway to the Southern African Development Community. The Trans Kalahari Corridor (TKC) links the Port of Walvis Bay with Botswana and... Read more
Nama tribe wins diamonds trove...while San get drugs reward. (Business Briefs: Legislation).(indigenous South Africans get patent for traditional medicine)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: African Business; 6/1/2003; 126 words ; ...financial windfall for South Africa's indigenous desert dwellers, the San (bushmen of the Kalahari desert) have won the first round in a battle to...hunger-fighting recipe for centuries, enabling the desert nomads to travel for days without food. Read more
On African Wildlife Management.
Magazine article from: Animals; 11/1/1998; ; 427 words ; Botswana's Okavango Delta, an oasis in the Kalahari Desert, first became commonly known to American readers with Mark and Delia Owens's work, Cry of the Kalahari. The oasis was then safe haven for many living things and was featured in the film The Gods Must Be Crazy. Now the newly released... Read more
Andre checks out with top police award.
Newspaper article from: Bury Free Press (Bury St. Edmunds, England); 9/18/2006; 330 words ; He has gone from studying predators in the Kalahari desert to targeting criminals in the heartland of Bury St Edmunds, now Andre De Jongh has nabbed a top prize for his trophy cabinet. The...deserving of this, but I am chuffed to say the least. Andre had been working as an ecologist in Botswana, researching ... Read more