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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A semiarid plateau region of southwest South Africa. It is divided into the North Karroo, along the Orange River; the Great (or Central) Karroo; and the Little Karroo, near the coast.

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Examples

  • CA: RLR 11: 156, Elandsdrift, in het Karroo, 31 Apr. 1747 to 24 Apr. 1748.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Sedimentation of dams is a problem, especially in the dams that impound parts of the Central Plateau that are covered by the very old rock of the Karoo (Karroo) System and its sediments.

    Water profile of South Africa 2008

  • Flowing from the Presidential imbizo in the Western Cape sometime last year, I started working in the constituency of George and the surrounding municipalities in the southern Cape/Klein Karroo on a project to enhance the skills level and hence the employability of matriculated youth from those areas.

    SPEECH BY BRUCE KANNEMEYER DURING THE DEBATE ON THE APPROPRIATIONS BILL 2004

  • Cabinet has given the go-ahead for construction of a R100 million telescope at Sutherland in the Karroo, a project which Arts and Science Misnister Lionel Mtshali says will put South Africa at the cutting edge of international astronomy.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • He was a younger version of the father, already beginning to spread around the waist, and with an open bucolic face, more like a Karroo sheep farmer than a commercial pilot.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • Namaqualand and the northern sections of the Karroo.

    PROPOSED NORTHERN BOUNDARY FOR WESTERN CAPE 1993

  • The more northerly parts of the Karroo, and Upington, were debatable territory which might go to Kimberley.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Pretoria, if indeed that was where we were being taken, passed through the Karroo, the dry central plain of South Africa, which becomes bitterly cold at night.

    Chapter 5 - Trial 1987

  • Look, you, I've hunted bushmen in the Karroo and the Kalahari, I've fought Xhosas and Fingoes along the Fish river, I went into the mountains after Moshesh and his Basutos.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • Sandstones of Karroo age occur in the basin of the

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

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