Drakensberg

[ drah-kuhnz-burg ]

noun

1. a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3,350 meters).

Drakensberg

/ ˈdrɑːkənzˌbɜːɡ /

noun

1. a mountain range in southern Africa, extending through Lesotho, E South Africa, and Swaziland. Highest peak: Thabana Ntlenyana, 3482 m (11 425 ft) Sotho nameQuathlamba

Example Sentences

Lesotho is a small land-locked mountain kingdom that is ringfenced by South African Drakensberg range on all sides.

From Reuters

Impala run through the thorn bush, ibis fly above the lake and lightning forks over the horizon as a storm rolls in from the Drakensberg mountains.

From The Guardian

Thabane was born on May 28, 1939, in what was then Britain’s colony of Basutoland, composed of mountains running along South Africa’s Drakensberg range.

From Reuters

He says that he saw his first painting when he was nine or ten years old, in the Drakensberg mountains, where his family hiked on vacation, sleeping in caves.

From The New Yorker

Speelman hails from Barkly East, a small, rural and impoverished town at the southern tip of South Africa’s Drakensberg mountains, one of the few areas of the country that gets significant snow.

From Reuters