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The high treeless peaks of the Drakensberg (from 2,500 m (8,200 ft) upward) have been described by the World Wide Fund for Nature as the Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands ecoregion. These steep slopes are the most southerly high mountains in Africa, and being farther from the equator provide cooler habitats at lower elevations ...
Mariepskop in the background, with the conical Maseroto peak in the foreground. The flat mountaintop afforded refuge to various harried tribes during the Mfecane . Mariepskop (also Marepe or Maripekop ), at 1,947 m above sea level, is one of the highest peaks in the northern Drakensberg , [ note 1 ] and the highest point of the Blyde River ...
Uinta Mountains. Bald Mountain (Utah) Bald Mountain Pass; Hayden Peak (Utah) Humpy Peak; High Uintas Wilderness. Kings Peak; Mount Agassiz (Utah) Wasatch Range. Ben Lomond Mountain (Utah) Ensign Peak; Francis Peak; Granite Mountain (Utah) Lone Peak Wilderness. Lone Peak; Mount Nebo (Utah) Mount Ogden; Mount Olympus (Utah) Mount Timpanogos ...
Pages in category "Drakensberg" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ... Maloti Mountains; Maputaland–Pondoland bushland and thickets;
The Drakensberg Group is a geological group named after the Drakensberg mountain range where in its uppermost sections the rocks are found. The Drakensberg Group lies over most of Lesotho and localities in the Eastern Cape , KwaZulu-Natal , and Free State provinces of South Africa .
The river originates in Mont-aux-Sources of the Drakensberg Mountains at an elevation of 3 282 metres [3] and plunges in five distinct free-leaping falls 947 metres down the Tugela Falls. The Mont-aux-Sources is also the origin of tributaries of two other major South African rivers, the Orange and the Caledon River.
It is located in the Maloti Mountains in Leribe District, and is part of the larger Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation Area. This Lesotho northern park protects a high-altitude, 2,600-metre (8,500 ft) patch of rugged wilderness, including one of Lesotho’s only stands of indigenous forest with a number of rare undergrowth plants ...
The Orange rises in the Drakensberg mountains along the border between South Africa and Lesotho, about 193 km (120 mi) west of the Indian Ocean and at an altitude of over 3,000 m (9,800 ft). The extremity of the Orange River inside Lesotho is known as the Senqu. Parts of the Senqu River freeze in winter because of the high altitude.