thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 10月5日 20時52分

Photograph by David Chancellor @chancellordavid - The Karoo, South Africa - I’ve travelled through this magnificent semidesert natural region of South Africa many times, and each time I’ve tried to capture the magnificence of this land. No exact definition of what constitutes the Karoo is available, so its extent is also not precisely defined. The Karoo formed an almost impenetrable barrier to the interior from Cape Town, and the early adventurers, explorers, hunters, and travelers on the way to the Highveld unanimously denounced it as a frightening place of great heat, great frosts, great floods, and great droughts and I totally adore it. Today, it is still a place of great heat and frosts, and an annual rainfall of between 50 and 250 mm, though on some of the mountains it can be 250 to 500 mm higher than on the plains. However, underground water is found throughout the Karoo, which can be tapped by boreholes, making permanent settlements and sheep farming possible. The driest region of the Karoo, however, is its southwestern corner, between the Great Escarpment and the Cederberg-Skurweberg mountain ranges, called the Tankwa Karoo, which receives only 75 mm of rain annually. The eastern and north-eastern Karoo are often covered by large patches of grassland. The typical Karoo vegetation used to support large game, sometimes in vast herds, but today, sheep thrive on the xerophytes, though each sheep requires about 4 ha of grazing to sustain itself. To see more work and projects from here and elsewhere follow me @chancellordavid @thephotosociety @ナショナルジオグラフィック @everydayextinction - #southafrica #thekaroo

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