Drakensberg

American  

[drah-kuhnz-burg] / ˈdrɑ kənzˌbɜrg /

noun

1. a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3,350 meters).

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Drakensberg British  

/ ˈdrɑːkənzˌbɜːɡ /

noun

1. Sotho name: Quathlamba.  a mountain range in southern Africa, extending through Lesotho, E South Africa, and Swaziland. Highest peak: Thabana Ntlenyana, 3482 m (11 425 ft)

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Example Sentences

San people started to paint “richly embellished” eland at sites in the Drakensberg Mountains during a period of cooler climate that began around 1500 B.C.E., when the animals—previously a staple food source—were becoming more scarce, as Challis and anthropologist Brian Stewart of the University of Michigan wrote in a 2023 paper.

From Science Magazine

Lesotho is a small land-locked mountain kingdom that is ringfenced by South African Drakensberg range on all sides.

From Reuters

Impala run through the thorn bush, ibis fly above the lake and lightning forks over the horizon as a storm rolls in from the Drakensberg mountains.

From The Guardian

Thabane was born on May 28, 1939, in what was then Britain’s colony of Basutoland, composed of mountains running along South Africa’s Drakensberg range.

From Reuters

He says that he saw his first painting when he was nine or ten years old, in the Drakensberg mountains, where his family hiked on vacation, sleeping in caves.

From The New Yorker