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and grasses are deciduous, mainly in response to the irregular rainfall. Much of the Nama Karoo biome is used for sheep and goat farming, providing mutton, wool, and pelts for local and international markets, especially since livestock can frequently be provided with a regular supply of water from boreholes. Overgrazing exacerbates the erosion caused by the violent thunderstorms that occur, infrequently, in the summer. It also promotes the replacement of the grasses by shrubs, especially the less edible varieties such as the threethorn (

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upper, sharp edge of the escarpment. (In other parts of the escarpment, hard erosion-resistant geological layers similarly form the upper, abrupt edge.) Note the island remnants of the earlier extent of the plateau on the plain below the escarpment (the Lower Karoo), left behind as the escarpment has gradually eroded further inland.

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The First World War brought about a slump in the ostrich feather market, but the industry recovered in later years, when not only the feathers were sought after, but also ostrich leather, and its meat, which is very tasty, and a major export item. Today, several farms can be visited by tourists, near

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district was apparently the first person to demonstrate that the ostrich could successfully be domesticated, bred in captivity, and the eggs hatched in incubators, while still producing the magnificent feathers. This idea was quickly adopted by farmers in the Little Karoo, where they started growing

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to the south and the savannah biome to the north. It is defined primarily by the dominance of dwarf (less than 1 m high) shrubs with a co-dominance of grasses especially towards the north-east and east where it grades into the grassland biome of the highveld and the Eastern Midlands. The shrubs

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The Nama Karoo biome is located entirely on the central plateau mostly at altitudes between 1000 and 1500 m. It incorporates nearly the whole of the historical and geographical Great Karoo, but also includes a portion of southern Namibia's Namaqualand, and South Africa's Bushmanland (both local

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The lava outpourings that ended the Karoo deposition of rocks, not only covered the African surface, and other parts of Gondwana with a 1.6 km thick layer basaltic lava, but it also forced its way, under high pressure, between the horizontal layers of sedimentary rocks belonging to the Ecca and

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The Great Karoo straddles the 30° S parallel on the west of the continent, in a similar position to other semidesert areas on earth, north and south of the equator. It is furthermore in the rainfall shadow of the Cape Fold Mountains along the western coastline. The western "Lower Karoo" (the Tankwa

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The mountain zebra occurred in the mountain regions of the Cape Fold Belt and along the southern portion of the Great Escarpment. Thus, they were endemic to, amongst others, the western Lower Karoo and the Klein Karoo. However, they were hunted to near extinction, leaving fewer than 100 individuals

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The introduction of the windpump to tap the Great Karoo's underground water resources in the late 1800s made permanent human habitation and sheep farming possible over large parts of the Great Karoo for the first time. As a result, the teeming number of large antelope in the Karoo has dwindled into

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The Klein Karoo contains two other geological features that give the landscape a special character. During the erosion of the African interior following the bulging of the continent during the massive lava outpourings that ended the Karoo sedimentation 180 million years ago, some of the eroded

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from the air. From about 150 million years ago the South African surface has been subjected to an almost uninterrupted period of erosion, particularly during the past 20 million years, shaving off many kilometers of sediments. This exposed the dolerite sills, which were more resistant to

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The Klein Karoo's boundaries are sharply defined by mountain ranges to the west, north, and south. The road between Uniondale and Willowmore is considered, by convention, to form the approximate arbitrary eastern extremity of the Klein Karoo. Its extent is much smaller than that of the Great Karoo.

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A stylized illustration of the Great Escarpment, based particularly on its appearance in the Great Karoo, where thick erosion resistant dolerite sills (see below; represented here by the thick black lines. The thinner dolerite sills are not drawn in this diagram to avoid clutter) generally form the

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The Klein Karoo, and especially Oudtshoorn, became synonymous with the ostrich-feather industry in the 1880s. The resulting "feather millionaires" built Victorian "Feather Palaces" all over town, using the red rocks belonging to the Enon Conglomerate, and related Kirkwood Formation, to build them.

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The ostrich is found throughout Africa, but the most handsome specimens came from the Klein Karoo, where the dry weather, but plentiful water in the streams formed an ideal habitat for these large, flightless birds. Here, they grow to over 2 m in height, and weigh over 100 kg. The male's

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During these migrations, the springbok never ran or trotted. On the whole, they were silent, except for the shudder of their stamping hoofs. Nothing could divert them, and hunters could ride amongst them, shooting them at random, without apparently causing alarm. People could move amongst them and

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The second special geological feature that marks the Kelin Karoo is the 300 km-long fault line along the southern edge of the Swartberg Mountains. The Swartberg Mountains were lifted up along this fault, to such an extent that in the Oudtshoorn region, the rocks that form the base of the Cape

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The geology of the Klein Karoo bears no resemblance to that of the Great Karoo (see the diagram on the left, of a NS geological cross-section through the Klein and Great Karoos). The valley is an integral part of the Cape Fold Mountain Belt, with the two ranges on either side composed of extremely

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The Karoo Supergroup was formed in a vast inland basin starting 320 million years ago, at a time when that part of Gondwana which would eventually become Africa, lay over the South Pole. Icebergs that had calved off the glaciers and ice sheets to the north deposited a 1 km-thick layer of

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and the Highveld. The boundary to the east grades into the grasslands of the Eastern Midlands. The Great Karoo is itself divided by the Great Escarpment into the Upper Karoo (generally above 1200–1500 m) and the Lower Karoo on the plains below at 700–800 m. A great many local names, each

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unanimously denounced it as a frightening place of great heat, great frosts, great floods, and great droughts. Today, it is still a place of great heat and frosts, and an annual rainfall of between 50 and 250 mm, though on some of the mountains it can be 250 to 500 mm higher than on the

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and the Seweweekspoort defiles, were subject to periodic flooding, after heavy thunderstorms in the Great Karoo. The Swartberg Pass is not tarred and can be treacherously slippery after rain. It also becomes impassable after heavy snowfalls on the mountain, a not infrequent occurrence in winter.

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of the mid-1700s, who led a nomadic existence, enduring great hardships in the relentless aridity, the intense heat (such that even their dogs could not walk on the scorching ground and had to be lifted into the overcrowded wagons), and the bitter cold in winter, especially at night. Before that

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Probably the strangest and most puzzling zoological phenomenon in the Great Karoo was the periodic, unpredictable appearance of massive springbok migrations. These migrations always came from the north, and could either go west towards Namaqualand and the sea, south-west through towns such as

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The first European settlers landed in the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, and between 1659 and 1664, made several unsuccessful attempts to penetrate the Great Karoo from the south-west. The Europeans who first entered the Great Karoo did so from the south-east (traveling north from

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Karoo and Moordenaarskaroo) contain remnants of the Cape Fold Mountains (e.g. the Witteberg and Anysberg Mountains) which give it a moderate hilly appearance, but further east, the Lower Karoo becomes a monotonously flat plain. The "Upper Karoo" has been intruded by

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range to the south. The northern strip of the valley, within 10–20 km from the foot of the Swartberg mountains is least karoo-like, in that it is a well-watered area both from the rain and the many streams that cascade down the mountain, or through narrow

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The Klein Karoo can only be accessed by road through the narrow defiles cut through the surrounding Cape Fold Mountains by ancient, but still flowing, rivers. A few roads traverse the mountains over passes, the most famous and impressive of which is the

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and many others in the Western Cape. The main motivation for building the pass was to provide an all-weather road connection between the southern Great Karoo, and Oudtshoorn (and from there to the sea). The two alternative roads, through the

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Sunset in the Great Karoo, near Sutherland, showing a multibladed windpump, which has made permanent settlement and farming possible in this thirsty land. These windpumps are as iconic of the Great Karoo as are the flat-topped Karoo

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Weishampel, David B; et al (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Jurassic, Africa)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 535–536.

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No one knew how, why, or where these migrations started, nor where they ended, nor did anyone know if these animals ever returned to where they had started. The migrations were always unidirectional, from north of the Great Karoo.

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A schematic geological map of the outcrops (surface exposures) of the Karoo Supergroup rocks in Southern Africa: The location and approximate structure of the Cape Fold Mountains are also diagrammatically indicated for reference

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belonging to the 450- to 510-million-year-old Table Mountain Group (i.e. the oldest layer of the Cape Supergroup). The valley floor is covered, in the main, by the next (younger) layer of the Supergroup, namely the much softer

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and climate, and above all, its low rainfall, arid air, cloudless skies, and extremes of heat and cold. The Karoo also hosted a well-preserved ecosystem hundreds of million years ago which is now represented by many fossils.

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The southern 30– to 50 km-wide strip, north of the Langeberg range, is as arid as the western Lower Karoo, except in the east, where the Langeberg range (arbitrarily) starts to be called the Outeniqua Mountains.

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by the 1930s. Conservation efforts since then brought their numbers up to 1200 by 1998, mainly by concentrating these zebra in nature reserves and protected areas, the most well-known of these being the

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This area was explored by European settlers in the late 17th century, who encountered the Khoisan people as the original inhabitants of this area. The latter called the Swartberg Mountains

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tusks have been found by farmers in the Camdeboo district, but no records exist of any having been seen alive in that region. The quagga roamed the Karoo in great numbers together with

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activity took place on a titanic scale, which brought an end to a flourishing reptile evolution. These genera represent some of the extinct, mainly predinosaur, animals of the Karoo:

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on the other side of the Swartberg mountains in the Great Karoo. Also, the main road between Oudtshoorn and George, on the coastal plain, crosses the mountains to the south via the

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The Klein Karoo is separated from the Great Karoo by the Swartberg Mountain range. Geographically, it is a 290 km-long valley, only 40–60 km wide, formed by two parallel

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have been established in many parts of the Great Karoo, turning what was once regarded as a forbiddingly desolate and unattractive geographical barrier into a tourist destination.

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Highveld do at times experience lower temperatures than Sutherland, but not as consistently as Sutherland does. Snowfalls are not infrequent during the southern winter months. The

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of South Africa. No exact definition of what constitutes the Karoo is available, so its extent is also not precisely defined. The Karoo is partly defined by its topography,

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denoting different subregions of the Great Karoo, exist, some more widely, or more generally, known than others. In the Lower Karoo, going from west to east, they are the

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After the Beaufort period, Southern Africa (still part of Gondwana) became an arid sand desert with only ephemeral rivers and pans. These sands consolidated to form the

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struggle over the Karoo's vast expanses, it was a bloody war of attrition wherein both sides used newly developed technologies to their advantage. Numerous abandoned

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The ǃ’Aukarob formed an almost impenetrable barrier to the interior from Cape Town, and the early adventurers, explorers, hunters, and travelers on the way to the

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erosion than the Karoo sediments, forming one of the most characteristic features of the Karoo landscape, namely the flat topped hills, called "Karoo Koppies".

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refers to an extensive and geologically recent (180–310 million years old) sequence of sedimentary and igneous rocks, which is flanked to the south by the

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and Moordenaarskaroo regions of the Lower Karoo, and adjoining Upper Karoo region of the geographic Great Karoo. It also occurs to the south, in part of the

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plains. However, underground water is found throughout the Karoo, which can be tapped by boreholes, making permanent settlements and sheep farming possible.

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can still be seen at strategic locations, especially along the railway line, throughout the Great Karoo. A prime example still "guards" a bridge over the

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kill them with sticks, or cripple them by seizing a leg and breaking it. Not only people followed these herds for the easy meat they provided, but also

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lucerne as the birds' favorite food. During 1880, no less than 74,000 kg of feathers were exported, and in 1904, it passed the 210,000-kg mark.

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As in the Great Karoo, antelope and other big game inhabited the Klein Karoo in the past. However, the dominant zebra was not the quagga, but the

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to the south and south-west. The extent of the Karoo to the north is vague, fading gradually and almost imperceptibly into the increasingly arid

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magisterial district, in particular, contributing a significant number of fighters to the Republican cause. Fought both conventionally and as a

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Mountains. The Swartberg range owes some of its great height to upliftment along this fault line. The subsurface structures are not to scale.

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which will, 2500 in total, be scattered in other parts of South Africa and Australia, to survey the southern skies at radio frequencies. Our

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geographical names, not names of biomes). It is the second-largest biome in South Africa, and forms the botanical transition between the

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sills which top the escarpment and mountains in the middle distance, giving these structures their characteristic flat-topped appearance.

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which delimits the Central South African Plateau. To the immediate south and south-west the solid lines trace the parallel ranges of the

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A diagrammatic 400 km north–south cross-section through the southern portion of the country at approximately 21° 30' E (i.e. near

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has an emplacement of telescopes about 20 km east of the town, on a small plateau 1798 m above sea level, and is home to the

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has classified the Great Karoo and Klein Karoo as almost entirely within two of what they consider South Africa's eight botanical

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in the Great Karoo. Cape mountain zebras are still found in protected areas managed by Cape Nature, including the Kamanassie and

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in the Swartberg from the Great Karoo. The main towns of the region are situated along this northern strip of the Klein Karoo:

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feathers have been prized by many cultures in Africa, Europe, and Asia over thousands of years. In the 1860s, a farmer in the

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Today, sheep thrive on the xerophytes, though each sheep requires about 4 hectares (9.9 acres) of grazing to sustain itself.

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shales. The dolerite of the Great Karoo did not penetrate these rocks, so Karoo Koppies are not seen in the Klein Karoo.

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Flat-topped hills (called Karoo Koppies) are highly characteristic of the southern and southwestern Karoo landscape.

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in the Great Fish River in the Karoo (and ate its foot for breakfast). He also recorded that he saw the spoor of a

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Great locust swarms also frequently invaded or arose in the Great Karoo, and still occur from time to time today.

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through a hub at De Aar, in the Great Karoo. Further branch lines were later built from points further north to

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The Karoo is divided into the Great Karoo and the Klein Karoo. The Klein Karoo is delimited in the south by the

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A railway line was built to connect Calitzdorp and Oudtshoorn, to Willowmore and from there, via Klipplaat, to

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The vegetation of the Upper is similar to the Lower Karoo, so few people make a distinction between the two.

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Supergroup are exposed. These are locally known as the Cango Group, but are probably continuous with the

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The main highway (the N1) and railway line from Cape Town to the north enter the Lower Karoo from the

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The succulent Karoo biome is dominated by dwarf, leafy-succulent shrubs, and annuals, predominantly

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towards the north-west. To the north and north-east, it fades into the savannah and grasslands of

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The only sharp and definite boundary of the Great Karoo is formed by the most inland ranges of

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prospered in the wet forests, and their remains have made the Karoo famous amongst

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geographical region, about 250 km north of Cape Town, and continues through

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wrote of the Karoo in his 1899 poem "Drummer Hodge" (or "The Dead Drummer").

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The Swartberg Pass was built, with convict labor, between 1881 and 1888 by

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that also runs east–west. The Great Karoo lies to the north the Swartberg.

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and follow a course about 50 km south of the Great Escarpment up to

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The line reached Kimberley in 1885, and has since been extended via

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recognised the Karoo fossils' mammal-like characteristics in 1897.

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at a road cutting near Fort Beaufort. He sent his specimens to the

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that run east–west parallel to the coast, and in the north by the

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and on the Highveld. This 3 km-thick layer is known as the

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while guarding the Karoo railway track, a lifeline during the

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of varying origins and sizes into this basin. This became the

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units, reinforced by the sympathizers ("rebels") from the

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1245:'s menagerie at Versailles by Nicolas Marechal, 1793 421:, the road ascends the Great Escarpment through the 160: 1194:The Great Karoo used to support a large variety of 157: 1841: 1479:In 1872, construction was started to connect the 1010:. In the Klein Karoo, the outcrop is composed of 4939: 2177: 2175: 2173: 2171: 2169: 2167: 2165: 1436:-speaking clans migrating through the area, and 1407:Oudtshoorn, the center of the ostrich industry. 2966:Raptor Identification Guide for Southern Africa 1957: 1840: 1907:Potgieter, D.J. & du Plessis, T.C. (1972) 562:valley between Uniondale and Humansdorp, near 4755: 4615:Geographic data and information organizations 4020: 3124: 2913:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T3326A45176532.en 2564: 2562: 2162: 1084:northwards to over 200 km into southern 942: 690:, which is overlain by the 5.6 km-thick 3034: 2667: 2665: 2663: 2661: 2659: 2583: 2581: 2579: 2577: 183:; from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South 3023:Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute 2968:. pp. 62, 82. Rollerbird Press, Pinegowrie. 2206: 2204: 2202: 2200: 2198: 2196: 2194: 2192: 2190: 1088:. It starts in the south just north of the 4762: 4748: 4027: 4013: 3131: 3117: 3005:. Cape Town. Human & Rousseau, p. 95. 2934: 2932: 2930: 2888:Collins, K.; Bragg, C.; Birss, C. (2019). 2859:"Bunolagus monticularis (Riverine rabbit)" 2571:. (1999) p. 90. 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(2008). 1557:A blockhouse in the eastern Karoo 1410: 1241:Painting of a quagga stallion in 910:, as well as the position of the 477:to the north, and the continuous 461:occur, even at great distances). 4919: 4907: 4896: 4895: 4882: 4721: 4709: 4697: 4686: 4685: 4661:International Geography Olympiad 3087: 3071:The poem was first published in 3061:from the original on 28 May 2012 2953:Roberts Birds of Southern Africa 2085:South African Journal of Geology 1740: 1725: 1710: 1698: 1683: 1603: 1415: 1357: 1189: 1050:, they have coined their biomes 653: 637: 464: 439:Southern African Large Telescope 379: 147: 71: 51: 4958:Natural regions of South Africa 3046: 3028: 3015: 2995: 2958: 2881: 2818: 2774: 2730: 2709: 2603: 2537: 2396: 2371: 2346: 2334: 2315: 2289: 2263: 2055:The New Encyclopædia Britannica 1565:of 1899–1902, three Republican 4374:Geographic information science 1868: 1834: 1747:Farmhouse in the Tankwa Karoo. 1717:The Valley of Desolation near 1596:Recently, nature reserves and 1184: 1021: 1006:, and similar outcrops in the 357: 295: 28:Natural region in South Africa 1: 4480:Geographic information system 2446:Knight, Will (28 July 2005). 2380:The Story of Earth & Life 2212:The Story of Earth and Life. 1799: 1522:(then Bechuanaland) to reach 1127:Spring flowers in Namaqualand 879:herbivorous, bipedal dinosaur 286:Outeniqua–Langeberg Mountains 4407:Environmental social science 3095:travel guide from Wikivoyage 1769:Mountain Zebra National Park 1690:The Nuweveld Mountains near 1384:Mountain Zebra National Park 374: 279: 7: 3099:http://www.karoospace.co.za 2258:Discovering Southern Africa 1784:Karoo District Municipality 1752: 1732:Typical Karoo koppies near 1100:, immediately south of the 304:A view from the top of the 10: 4989: 3003:Early Railways at the Cape 1779:Tankwa Karoo National Park 1491:, The new line started in 1346:(3.0–5.8 kg) and the 1146: 1069: 943:Geology of the Klein Karoo 621: 578: 257:and, from there, into the 18: 4953:Geography of South Africa 4891: 4880: 4777: 4681: 4638: 4607: 4570: 4522:Global Positioning System 4448: 4439: 4397: 4349: 4210: 4085: 4078: 4045: 3966: 3831: 3741: 3618: 3609: 3504: 3495: 3406: 3397: 3303: 3294: 3269: 3159: 3150: 2991:10.1007/s10592-005-9083-8 1849:Oxford English Dictionary 1471:The Lord Milner Hotel in 1460:invented the multibladed 1392:Gamkaberg Nature Reserves 948:hard, erosion-resistant, 763:, aquatic Dwyka carnivore 631:Extinct Karoo vertebrates 594:In geological terms, the 129: 94: 70: 50: 43: 33: 3021:Royal Colonial Society: 2622:. 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