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Orange River

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The Orange River (from Afrikaans/Dutch: Oranjerivier) is the longest river in South Africa and the Orange River Basin extends extensively into Namibia and Botswana to the north. [1]

99 relations: Afrikaans, Alexander Bay, Northern Cape, Aliwal North, Alluvium, Apartheid, Armenia Dam, Ash River, Atlantic Ocean, Augrabies Falls, Augrabies Falls National Park, Aussenkehr, Border, Border checkpoint, Botswana, Caledon River, Canoeing, Cape Town, Citrus, Colesberg, Common carp, ǁKaras Region, Diamond, Diamond rush, Drakensberg, Dutch East India Company, Dutch language, Eastern Cape, Egmont Dam, Endemism, Endorheic basin, Eskom, Eureka Diamond, Evaporation, Fluorite, Free State (province), Gariep Dam, Gariep Dam (town), Gauteng, Great Fish River, Harrismith, Hendrik Verwoerd, Henry Bartle Frere, Hippopotamus, Hopetown, House of Orange-Nassau, Hydroelectricity, Indian Ocean, Introduced species, Kakamas, Kalahari Desert, ..., Khoisan, Kimberley, Northern Cape, Kimberlite, Largemouth yellowfish, Lesotho, Lesotho Highlands Water Project, List of crossings of the Orange River, List of international border rivers, List of rivers of South Africa, Maloti Mountains, Mosquitofish, Mozambique tilapia, Namaqualand, Namib, Namibia, Newberry Dam, Nile crocodile, Northern Cape, Orange River mudfish, Orange–Fish River Tunnel, Oranjemund, Oviston, Pumped-storage hydroelectricity, Rafting, Rain, Rainbow trout, Ramsar Convention, Rapids, Richtersveld, River mouth, Robert Jacob Gordon, Rock-catfish, Shoal, Smallmouth yellowfish, South Africa, South African wine, Star of South Africa (diamond), Sterkfontein Dam, Sundays River, Thaba Putsoa, Tugela River, Upington, Vaal River, Vanderkloof Dam, Vioolsdrif, Wadi, Walvis Bay, Welbedacht Dam, William V, Prince of Orange. Expand index (49 more) »

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

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Alexander Bay, Northern Cape

Alexander Bay is a town in the extreme north-west of South Africa.

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Aliwal North

Aliwal North is a town in central South Africa on the Orange River, Eastern Cape Province.

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Alluvium

Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Armenia Dam

Armenia Dam is a dam in the Leeu River, near Hobhouse, Free State province, South Africa.

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Ash River

The Ash River is a river of Minnesota.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Augrabies Falls

The Augrabies Falls is a waterfall on the Orange River, South Africa, within the Augrabies Falls National Park.

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Augrabies Falls National Park

Augrabies Falls National Park is a national park located around the Augrabies Falls, about 120 km west of Upington in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa.

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Aussenkehr

Aussenkehr (Outer bend, referring to the flow of the Orange at this location) is a farm on the banks of the Orange River in the south of Namibia hard on the border with South Africa.

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Border

Borders are geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities.

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Border checkpoint

A border checkpoint is a place, generally between two countries, where travelers or goods are inspected.

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Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana (Lefatshe la Botswana), is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa.

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Caledon River

The Caledon River (Mohokare) is a major river located in central South Africa, rising in the Drakensberg Mountains on the Lesotho border, flowing southwestward and then westward before joining the Orange River near Bethulie in the southern Free State.

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Canoeing

Canoeing is an activity which involves paddling a canoe with a single-bladed paddle.

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Cape Town

Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.

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Citrus

Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae.

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Colesberg

Colesberg is a town with 17,354 inhabitants in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, located on the main N1 road from Cape Town to Johannesburg.

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Common carp

The common carp or European carp (Cyprinus carpio) is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.

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ǁKaras Region

The ǁKaras Region, also spelled !Karas Region, is the southernmost and least densely populated of the 14 regions of Namibia; its capital is Keetmanshoop.

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Diamond

Diamond is a solid form of carbon with a diamond cubic crystal structure.

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Diamond rush

A diamond rush is a period of feverish migration of workers to an area that has had a discovery of diamonds.

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Drakensberg

The Drakensberg (Afrikaans: Drakensberge, Zulu: uKhahlamba, Sotho: Maluti) is the name given to the eastern portion of the Great Escarpment, which encloses the central Southern African plateau.

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Dutch East India Company

The United East India Company, sometimes known as the United East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; or Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie in modern spelling; abbreviated to VOC), better known to the English-speaking world as the Dutch East India Company or sometimes as the Dutch East Indies Company, was a multinational corporation that was founded in 1602 from a government-backed consolidation of several rival Dutch trading companies.

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa.

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Egmont Dam

Egmont Dam is an arch type dam on the Witte Spruit, near Van Stadensrus, Free State, South Africa.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Endorheic basin

An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin or endorreic basin) (from the ἔνδον, éndon, "within" and ῥεῖν, rheîn, "to flow") is a limited drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation.

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Eskom

Eskom is a South African electricity public utility, established in 1923 as the Electricity Supply Commission (ESCOM) by the government of the Union of South Africa in terms of the Electricity Act (1922).

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Eureka Diamond

The Eureka Diamond was the first diamond discovered in South Africa.

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Evaporation

Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gaseous phase before reaching its boiling point.

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Fluorite

Not to be confused with Fluoride. Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2.

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Free State (province)

The Free State (Vrystaat, Foreistata; before 1995, the Orange Free State) is a province of South Africa.

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Gariep Dam

Gariep Dam is in South Africa, near the town of Norvalspont, bordering the Free State and Eastern Cape provinces.

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Gariep Dam (town)

Gariep Dam (Gariepdam), founded as "Oranjekrag", is a settlement in Xhariep District Municipality in the Free State (province) of South Africa.

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Gauteng

Gauteng, which means "place of gold", is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.

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Great Fish River

The Great Fish River (called great to distinguish it from the Namibian Fish River) (Groot-Visrivier) is a river running through the South African province of the Eastern Cape.

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Harrismith

Harrismith is a large town in the Free State province of South Africa.

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Hendrik Verwoerd

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966), also commonly referred to as H. F. Verwoerd and Dr.

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Henry Bartle Frere

Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet (29 March 1815 – 29 May 1884) was a British colonial administrator.

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Hippopotamus

The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis).

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Hopetown

Hopetown is a town which lies at the edge of the Great Karoo in South Africa's Northern Cape province.

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House of Orange-Nassau

The House of Orange-Nassau (Dutch: Huis van Oranje-Nassau), a branch of the European House of Nassau, has played a central role in the politics and government of the Netherlands and Europe especially since William the Silent organized the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule, which after the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) led to an independent Dutch state.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).

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Introduced species

An introduced species (alien species, exotic species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species) is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental.

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Kakamas

Kakamas is a town founded in 1898 and located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, on the banks of the Orange River.

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Kalahari Desert

The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for, covering much of Botswana, parts of Namibia and regions of South Africa.

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Khoisan

Khoisan, or according to the contemporary Khoekhoegowab orthography Khoesān (pronounced), is an artificial catch-all name for the so-called "non-Bantu" indigenous peoples of Southern Africa, combining the Khoekhoen (formerly "Khoikhoi") and the Sān or Sākhoen (also, in Afrikaans: Boesmans, or in English: Bushmen, after Dutch Boschjesmens; and Saake in the Nǁng language).

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Kimberley, Northern Cape

Kimberley is the capital and largest city of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.

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Kimberlite

Kimberlite is an igneous rock, which sometimes contains diamonds.

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Largemouth yellowfish

The largemouth yellowfish or Vaal-Orange largemouth yellowfish (Labeobarbus kimberleyensis) is a ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae.

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Lesotho

Lesotho officially the Kingdom of Lesotho ('Muso oa Lesotho), is an enclaved country in southern Africa.

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Lesotho Highlands Water Project

The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is an ongoing water supply project with a hydropower component, developed in partnership between the governments of Lesotho and South Africa.

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List of crossings of the Orange River

This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Orange River.

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List of international border rivers

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List of rivers of South Africa

This is a list of rivers in South Africa.

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Maloti Mountains

The Maloti Mountains, also spelled Maluti, are a mountain range of the highlands of the Kingdom of Lesotho.

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Mosquitofish

The western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) is a species of freshwater fish, also known commonly, if ambiguously, as simply mosquitofish or by its generic name, Gambusia, or by the common name gambezi.

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Mozambique tilapia

The Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) is a tilapiine cichlid fish native to southern Africa.

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Namaqualand

Namaqualand (Namakwaland) is an arid region of Namibia and South Africa, extending along the west coast over and covering a total area of.

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Namib

The Namib is a coastal desert in southern Africa.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia (German:; Republiek van Namibië), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean.

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Newberry Dam

Newberry Dam is dam in South Africa.

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Nile crocodile

The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is an African crocodile, the largest freshwater predator in Africa, and may be considered the second-largest extant reptile and crocodilian in the world, after the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus).

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Northern Cape

The Northern Cape (Noord-Kaap; Kapa Bokone) is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa.

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Orange River mudfish

Orange River mudfish (Labeo capensis) is a species of fish in genus Labeo.

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Orange–Fish River Tunnel

The Orange–Fish Tunnel is an irrigation tunnel in central South Africa.

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Oranjemund

Oranjemund (German for "Mouth of Orange") is a diamond mining town of 4,000 inhabitants situated in the ǁKaras Region of the extreme southwest of Namibia, on the northern bank of the Orange River mouth at the border to South Africa.

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Oviston

Oviston is a settlement in Gariep in Joe Gqabi District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Pumped-storage hydroelectricity

Pumped-storage hydroelectricity (PSH), or pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES), is a type of hydroelectric energy storage used by electric power systems for load balancing.

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Rafting

Rafting and white water rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water.

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Rain

Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then becomes heavy enough to fall under gravity.

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Rainbow trout

The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a trout and species of salmonid native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.

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Ramsar Convention

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.

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Rapids

Rapids are sections of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient, causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence.

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Richtersveld

The Richtersveld is a desert landscape characterised by rugged kloofs and high mountains, situated in the north-western corner of South Africa’s Northern Cape province.

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River mouth

A river mouth is the part of a river where the river flows into another river, a lake, a reservoir, a sea, or an ocean.

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Robert Jacob Gordon

Robert Jacob Gordon (29 September 1743 Doesburg, Gelderland – 25 October 1795 Cape Town), was a Dutch explorer, soldier, artist, naturalist and linguist of Scottish descent.

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Rock-catfish

The rock-catfish, Austroglanis sclateri, is a species of catfish in the Austroglanididae family.

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Shoal

In oceanography, geomorphology, and earth sciences, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface.

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Smallmouth yellowfish

The smallmouth yellowfish (Labeobarbus aeneus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Labeobarbus.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South African wine

South African wine has a history dating back to 1659, with the first bottle produced in Cape Town by its founder Jan van Riebeeck.

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Star of South Africa (diamond)

The Star of South Africa, also known as the Dudley Diamond, is a white diamond found by a Griqua shepherd boy in 1869 on the banks of the Orange River.

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Sterkfontein Dam

The Sterkfontein Dam, located just outside the town of Harrismith, in the Free State, province of South Africa, is part of the Tugela-Vaal Water Project and the Drakensberg Pumped Storage Scheme, and located on the Nuwejaarspruit, a tributary of the Wilge River in the upper catchment area of the Vaal River.

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Sundays River

The Sundays River or Nukakamma (Sondagsrivier) is a river in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.

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Thaba Putsoa

Thaba Putsoa (Blue Mountain) is a mountain in the Maseru District of Lesotho.

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Tugela River

The Tugela River (Thukela; Tugelarivier) is the largest river in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.

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Upington

Upington is a town founded in 1884 and located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, on the banks of the Orange River.

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Vaal River

The Vaal River is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa.

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Vanderkloof Dam

The Vanderkloof Dam (originally the P. K. Le Roux Dam) is situated approximately downstream from Gariep Dam and is fed by the Orange River, South Africa's largest river.

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Vioolsdrif

Vioolsdrif is a village on the Orange River in the north-western part of South Africa, known as Namaqualand.

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Wadi

Wadi (wādī; ואדי), alternatively wād (وَاد), is the Arabic and Hebrew term traditionally referring to a valley.

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Walvis Bay

Walvis Bay (Afrikaans Walvisbaai, German Walfischbucht or Walfischbai, all meaning "Whale Bay") is a city in Namibia and the name of the bay on which it lies.

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Welbedacht Dam

Welbedacht Dam is a concrete-gravity type dam situated in South Africa, and was established in 1973.

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William V, Prince of Orange

William V, Prince of Orange (Willem Batavus; 8 March 1748 – 9 April 1806) was the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_River

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