Drakensberg
Americannoun
noun
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However, later volcanic activity created the Drakensberg Group, covering many of these fossil-bearing layers with lava.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026
Lesotho is a small land-locked mountain kingdom that is ringfenced by South African Drakensberg range on all sides.
From Reuters • Oct. 9, 2022
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 • Jan. 3, 2021
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 • Mar. 18, 2019
According to tradition, the Thembu people lived in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains and migrated toward the coast in the sixteenth century, where they were incorporated into the Xhosa nation.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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