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Definition of The Great Karroo

The Great Karroo
Karreo Kar*reo", n.; pl. Karroos. One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations. [Also karoo.] The Great Karroo, or The Karroo, a vast plateau, in Cape Colony, stretching through five degrees of longitude, at an elevation of about 3,000 feet.

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- "Bridge-Guard in the Karroo", evoked the loneliness experienced by blockhouse soldiers at Ketting station on the Dwyka River while guarding the Karoo railway...
- underlies the Forest Sandstone Formation. The Pebbly Arkose has been correlated to the Elliot Formation of the Great Karroo Basin, South Africa and the Mpandi...
- The thin skin around the throat is yellow, and it has conical scales along the spine. It inhabits rather dry habitat on the border between the Great and...
- composed of Karroo sandstones which rise from peneplain plateau at altitude between 250 m in the south and 300 m in the north. The rim of the caldera forms...
- correlated to the Clarens Formation of the Great Karoo Basin in South Africa. The Forest Sandstone is the major groundwater-bearing unit of the Upper Karoo...
- Ogden Stiers as Karroo, an Aye-aye from "Luck Be an Aye-aye". Ron F****ler, Anne Lambton, & Jimmie Wood are Tak a little rat, Sheeba the eye patch wearing...
- in paints. The gum of Acacia xanthophloea and Acacia karroo has a high sugar content and is sought out by the lesser bushbaby. Acacia karroo gum was once...
- African Museum in the Karroo desert; Scottish paleontologist Mike Benton of the University of Bristol; Peter Ward (paleontologist) of the University of Washington;...
- greenish warbler of Asia, and the Ensatina salamanders of America, have been disputed. Acanthiza pusilla and A. ewingii Acacia karroo Alauda skylarks (Alauda...
- the Brandberg, with a further 28 species endemic to the Kaoko element. A large and significant group of species has a disjunction between the Karroo-Namib...