The Great Escarpment is a major topographical feature in Africa that consists of steep slopes from the high central Southern African plateau downward in...

is the eastern portion of the Great Escarpment, which encloses the central Southern African plateau. The Great Escarpment reaches its greatest elevation...

for much of that distance, soon giving way to a mountainous escarpment (Great Escarpment) that separates the coast from the high inland plateau. In some...

to: Great Escarpment, Australia Great Escarpment, Brazil Great Escarpment of India Great Escarpment, Southern Africa This disambiguation page lists articles...

layers where the escarpments have been exposed to the elements. Elgeyo escarpment (Great Rift Valley) Great Escarpment, Southern Africa Including the Drakensberg...

300 mi) Hindu Kush-Himalayas region – 3,500 km (2,200 mi) Great Escarpment, Southern Africa – 5,000 km (3,100 mi) Drakensberg – 1,000 km (620 mi) Rocky...

are among the highest in the country. It forms part of the Great Escarpment of southern Africa, separating the Huíla Plateau of the interior from the low-lying...

Khomas Highland by traversing the Great Escarpment, a geological feature of much of the southern part of the African continent. With gradients between...

the most southern rift valley lake in Kenya, although the northern end of Lake Natron in Tanzania reaches into Kenya. The Elgeyo escarpment forms part...

Great Escarpment through the Verlatenkloof Pass to reach Sutherland, at 1456 m above sea level, which is reputedly the coldest town in South Africa with...

180-million-year-old failed rift valley cuts into Southern Africa's central plateau and locally obliterates the Great Escarpment, is known as the Lowveld. The Limpopo...

stretches of the Great Escarpment contains several ranges of Cape Fold Mountains which run parallel to the coast, separating the Great Escarpment from the ocean...

of 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi). The Nuweveld portion of the Great Escarpment runs through the Park. It is therefore partly in the Lower Karoo, at...

subregions: Northern Africa Eastern Africa Middle Africa Southern Africa Western Africa One common approach categorizes Africa directionally, e.g., by cardinal...

just west of the line of the great East African Trough, the northern continuation of which passes along its eastern escarpment as it runs up to join the...

have had so far negative social and environmental effects. Great Escarpment, Southern Africa Lesotho Highlands Water Project Climate Change in Lesotho...

Britannica “Great Escarpment” by: Encyclopædia Britannica(undated) Encyclopædia Britannica Article The Great Escarpment of southern Africa: a new frontier...

for much of that distance, soon giving way to a mountainous escarpment (Great Escarpment) that separates the coast from the high inland plateau. In some...

the great escarpment of Serra da Leba, located roughly 18 km (11 mi) from the Angolan city of Lubango, Huíla, in Southern Africa. The escarpment marks...

e. a mountain wind) is the South African name for a katabatic wind: a hot dry wind blowing down the Great Escarpment from the high central plateau to...

Geography of South Africa Great Escarpment, Southern Africa Borakalalo Game Reserve Pilanesberg List of mountain ranges of South Africa Witwatersrand Gold Rush...

equivalent to the African Surface. African superswell – Geological region of exceptional tectonic uplift Great Escarpment, Southern Africa – Major topographical...

The geomorphology of South Africa consists of a high plateau rimmed to west, south and southeast by the Great Escarpment, and the rugged mountains of...

tributary of the Gourits River. The Groot River rises in the Komsberg Escarpment of the Great Karoo, about 40 km south of Sutherland in the Northern Cape Province...

Great Escarpment to the south separates the Highveld from KwaZulu-Natal. The south-eastern portion of the Great Escarpment (that portion of the Great...

Manitoba Escarpment (eastward), Manitoba Plain, Missouri Coteau (shared), Rocky Mountain Foothills (eastward), and Saskatchewan Plain. The Great Plains...

and overlap between them: the Central Plateau, the Namib Desert, the Great Escarpment, the Bushveld, and the Kalahari Desert. The Central Plateau runs from...

the Great Escarpment. Annual precipitation ranges from 2 millimetres (0.079 in) in the aridest regions to 200 millimetres (7.9 in) at the escarpment, making...

The subsurface structures are not to scale. The escarpment marks the southwestern edge of South Africa's central plateau (see the middle and bottom diagrams...

East Africa as a source of modern cultures and biology." According to the Southern Dispersal scenario, the Southern route of the Out of Africa migration...