Kalahari Desert
Speech parts
1. Kalahari Desert - Noun
2. Kalahari Desert - Proper noun
Meaning
a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana
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Examples
In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.
The journey starts with the oldest bead found in Africa in about 10,000 BC, which was chipped from the thick shell of the ostrich egg in what is now the Kalahari Desert.
The oldest known African bead is more than 12.000 years old and was found in the Kalahari Desert, but South African beads may be up to 75,000 years old.
The upper part of the drainage basin, in the Kalahari Desert, is arid but conditions become less arid further downriver.
The Central Plateau runs from north to south, bordered by the Skeleton Coast to the northwest, the Namib Desert and its coastal plains to the southwest, the Orange River to the south, and the Kalahari Desert to the east.
In the Kalahari Desert of Southern Africa, the distinct people known as Bushmen (also "San", closely related to, but distinct from " Hottentots ") have long been present.