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Kalahari

[kah-luh-hahr-ee, kal-uh-]

noun

  1. a desert region in SW Africa, largely in Botswana. 100,000 sq. mi. (259,000 sq. km).



Kalahari

/ ˌkæləˈhɑːrɪ /

noun

  1. Also known as: the Kalahari Desertan extensive arid plateau of South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana. Area: 260 000 sq km (100 000 sq miles)

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The Amsterdam electronic label Kalahari Oyster Cult had similar reasoning: “We don’t want our music contributing to or benefiting a platform led by someone backing tools of war, surveillance and violence,” they posted.

However, forty years ago, only two large intact wildebeest migrations remained in Africa: the famed Great Migration of the Serengeti-Mara and one in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa.

The trees were discovered growing beneath the Kalahari sands of highland Angola, in central Africa.

From BBC

These findings stem from a remarkable continuous decade-long field study of 40 family groups of sparrow weavers in the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa.

Rain accumulates in the Angolan highlands, eventually flowing down into the main channel of the Okavango River in Namibia before spilling out across the Kalahari sands of northern Botswana.

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