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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A mostly arid region of southwest Africa divided by the Orange River into Great Namaqualand in Namibia and Little Namaqualand in South Africa.
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Examples
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The black market for diamonds, he discovered, was especially prevalent in Namaqualand, a region north of Cape Town, South Africa.
The Diamond Myth 2006
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The black market for diamonds, he discovered, was especially prevalent in Namaqualand, a region north of Cape Town, South Africa.
The Diamond Myth 2006
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Mandela visited the region known as Namaqualand, in Northern
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NP strongholds, such as Namaqualand and Lower Oranje.
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NP strongholds, such as Namaqualand and Lower Oranje.
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Within a decade of establishing a permanent presence at the Cape of Good Hope, European explorers had traveled north of the river's mouth and into Namaqualand, but it was nearly 75 years before colonial hunters and farmers began regularly to exploit the resources near the Olifants.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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The northern frontier writ large began moving beyond the Cedarberg to Namaqualand and northeast to Griqualand and Trans-Orangia by the 1760s and 1770s, long before frontier struggles in the Cedarberg were settled.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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The second zone, the Southern Karoo, experiences peaks of rainfall in spring and autumn and has more extreme climate variations than the Namaqualand desert.
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Diamond mining has had a very heavy impact on the Namaqualand coastline and alluvial terraces of the lower Orange River Valley.
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The creation of the Namaqua National Park (600 km) in the central uplands of Namaqualand is an example of one such positive development, and the park is set to expand westwards to encompass Sandveld habitats on the coastal plain.
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