Namaqualand

a semiarid coastal region of SW Africa, extending from near Windhoek, Namibia, into W South Africa: divided by the Orange River into Little Namaqualand in South Africa, and Great Namaqualand in Namibia; rich mineral resources. Area: 47 961 sq. km (18 518 sq. miles)

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Namaqualand

a high plateau in southwestern Africa, between the Cape Mountains in the south and the upper reaches of the Great Fish River in the north. Average elevations range from 1,000 to 1,200 m, with a maximum elevation of 2,202 m in the Karasberg massif. Southern Namaqualand, or Little Namaqualand, extends to the Orange River. It consists of a peneplain on a crystalline foundation with large deposits of copper ore around Okiep in the Republic of South Africa. In northern Namaqualand, or Namaland, the crystalline foundation is covered in the east by ancient limestone and quartzite forming steplike plateaus. Southern Namaqualand has a subtropical desert climate, and northern Namaqualand has a semidesert tropical climate. Sparse sclerophyll shrub vegetation and turf grasses are found in southern Namaqualand; in northern Namaqualand there are succulent deserts with aloe in the west and shrub deserts with acacias in the east. Migratory livestock raising is the chief occupation of the region’s inhabitants.

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It boasts 600 plant species and 45 mammals, including savanna baboons, and is in the heart of 'bloom country' around 15km south-east of Springbok, the largest town in Namaqualand.

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He explored Zululand, the Transvaal, what is now Botswana and Namibia, Namaqualand and Matabeleland before they were mapped, and his classic account of his African adventures, African Hunting and Adventure was cited by none other than Selous as his raison d'etre for coming to Africa.

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[8] With regard to lipoid proteinosis, a study conducted in the Namaqualand region of SA proposed that a brother and his sister who were born early in the 18th century are the common ancestors of present-day lipoid proteinosis patients.

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At a regional scale, a number of studies focus on southern Africa, where nineteenth-century rainfall series have been published for the Kalahari (Nash and Endfield 2002a,b, 2008), Lesotho (Nash and Grab 2010), Namaqualand (Kelso and Vogel 2007), and the southern and eastern Cape (Vogel 1989).

Recent advances in the historical climatology of the tropics and subtropics: historical documents from tropical regions contain weather information that can be used to reconstruct past climate variability, the occurrence of tropical storms, and El Nino and La Nina episodes

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