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Southern African Landscapes
The face of Southern Africa is a reflection of its
turbulent geological past, as well as a huge range of climatic conditions.
Few parts of the world contain such diverse and beautiful natural
landscapes as this region where a desert stands in stark contrast to the
lush eastern sea-board and the Cape mountains to the south. This diversity
of habitats is one of the reasons for the extraordinary profusion of
plants, insects and animals found here.
The peaks of the high 'Berg under rain clouds and the Lotheni River valley in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg, South
Africa
Spring daisies, Gazania
lichtensteinii, flowering with tufts of perennial Short Bushman
Grass, Stipagrostis obtusa, and Tall Bushman Grass,
Stipagrostis ciliata, after exceptional winter rain on the gravel
plains in the Tanqua Karoo with Skoorsteenberg beyond, Western Cape, South
Africa
Cloud driven by a gale-force north-westerly wind
over the eastern face of Cape Town's Table Mountain, Cape Peninsula, South
Africa
Leucadendron microcephalum flowering in
snow in winter on the Groenlandberge with the Hottentots Hollands
Mountains beyond under cloud, South Africa
Sunset over the Qora River on the Wild Coast,
Eastern Cape, South Africa
Late summer thunderclouds bringing rain to the
Great Karoo with already extensive grass cover in Nama Karoo vegetation
near Colesberg in the Great Karoo, Northern Cape, South Africa
Leucadendron laureolum flowering in fynbos
below a winter rainbow in a stormy sky above the Cape of Good Hope section
of the Table Mountain National Park, Cape Peninsula, South
Africa
Succulent Karoo vegetation in late evening light in
the northern Tanqua Karoo with clouds from an approaching cold front over
the Roggeveld Escarpment, Northern Cape, South Africa
The Candelabra Flower, Brunsvigia
bosmaniae, flowering in profusion in autumn amongst dry tufts of
grasses below dolerite koppies on the Bokkeveld Escarpment near
Nieuwoudtville, Northern Cape, South Africa
Late evening sun behind storm clouds outlining
Camelthorn, Acacia erioloba, trees in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier
Park, Northern Cape, South Africa
Early morning light illuminating a heavy deposit of
droplets on grasses, the pink stemmed grass Diheteropogon
filifolius, and Festuca costata after overnight soft rain in
early summer in the Lotheni River valley in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg,
South Africa
Baobab trees, Adansonia digitata, without
leaves in winter and silhouetted against the dawn along the Luvuvhu River
near Pafuri in the northern Kruger National Park, Limpopo, South
Africa
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