Karoo National Park [SEP] inception
Karoo National Park
The Karoo National Park, founded in 1979, is a wildlife reserve in the Great Karoo area of the Western Cape, South Africa near Beaufort West. This semi-desert area covers an area of . The Nuweveld portion of the Great Escarpment runs through the Park. It is therefore partly in the Lower Karoo, at about 850 m above sea level, and partly in the Upper Karoo at over 1300 m altitude.
Facilities.
The Park has a camp site for caravans and tents
of the Karoo in his poem "Drummer Hodge".
In "Bridge-Guard in the Karroo", Rudyard Kipling evoked the loneliness experienced by blockhouse soldiers at Ketting station on the Dwyka River while guarding the Karoo railway track, a lifeline during the South African War (excerpts).
See also.
- People of the Karoo
- Karoo National Park
- Mountain Zebra National Park
- Camdeboo National Park
- Tankwa Karoo National Park
- Karoo District Municipality
- Central Karoo District Municipality