Damaraland

[duh-mahr-uh-land, dam-er-uh-]

noun

1. a region in the central part of Namibia.

Damaraland

/ dəˈmɑːrəˌlænd /

noun

1. a plateau region of central Namibia, the traditional homeland of the Damara people

Example Sentences

She said she is familiar with the zoo’s array of animals — from the naked mole rats to the Damaraland mole rats, “which are less naked and much bigger,” she said.

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We landed on a dusty airstrip in the middle of nothing, and a muddy jeep was waiting to bump me along a barely visible path and deposit me at a remote camp in Damaraland in north-central Namibia, 60km inland from the Skeleton Coast.

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Poaching is a scourge in Damaraland, an arid region of rocky outcroppings in northwest Namibia.

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The trip also visits the Huab Conservancy in Damaraland, home to the endangered black rhino, and overnight at the new Huab Under Canvas, a semi-permanent conservation camp with platform tents.

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After consulting a map, I narrowed down a circuit encompassing the mighty Sossusvlei dunes, the quaint beach town of Swakopmund, and the notorious Skeleton Coast — it is said it is so named because it’s where ships and whales come to die, studding the shore with their sun-bleached remains — before veering inland, through the phantasmagoric mountainscape of Damaraland, back to Windhoek.

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