RICHTERSVELD NATIONAL PARK Creation, When Continents Moved and Plates Shifted Ists

RICHTERSVELD NATIONAL PARK Creation, When Continents Moved and Plates Shifted Ists

RICHTERSVELD 17°00’00” 17°15’00” 17°30’00” 17°45’00” 18°00’00” 18°15’00” 18°30’00” To Ais Ais P/D, accommodation. o o o 28°07’26’’S 16°53’ 27’’E 28°04’48”S 16°56’47”E o 18 15 30 45 19 00 19 10 o Sendelingsdrif Rest Camp Potjiespram 28 48 28 48 NATIONAL PARK Rest Camp INSET: GOODHOUSE EAST TO PELLA National Park Reception AND NORTHERN NAMAQUALAND 027 831 1506 28°54’16” S 18°41’23” E Fuel 28°51’45” S 18°45’01” E O R A N G E Monday-Sunday 8:00 - 16:00 H NAMIBIA 28°07’19”S 17°00’34”E IS AI-AIS/RICHTERSVELD F Shop 4.3 Hand of God Restricted Road The shop is currently not run by the TRANSFRONTIER PARK Guadom Witbank NP. Opening hours not reliable Ramansdrif RT1 RT2 28°54’16” S 18°41’23” E 4.4 campsite KHEISBERG 842 28°07’22”S 16°53’25”E RT3 RT4 29°54’19” S 18°46’16” E Sendelingsdrif Pont Sendelingsdrif 10.1 28°10’59”S 17°10’20”E 29°00’17”S 19°00’41”E 0.4 Melkboom Info tel. (027) 831 1506. High water De Hoop Campsite 28°13.70’ S Goodhouse Kabis 28°53’42” S 18°40’41” E Boerputs level can disrupt operations. 189 RT13 Kambreek Klein Pella Campsite Hours: 8:00 – 16:00 MEHLBERG 11.3 17°03.60’ E 28°54’16” S 18°41’23” E Hoogoor 054 972 9712 0.1 924 0.6 28°55’47” S 18°44’26” E • 2 standard 4x4 vehicles 7.3 28°56’32” S 18°15’52” E Dabenoris • 1 standard 4x4 vehicle with trailer • 2 standard light motor vehicles RT5 28 13.85’ S 1074 28°57’16” S 18°59’53”E with trailers 5.1 RT4 17 03.30’ E ABBASASBERGE DABENORIS- Koenabib • 1 bus with a seating capacity of RT3 4.7 936 less than 20 BERGE 4.6 28°14’56”S 17°14’48”E 28°58’59” S 18°16’01” E Pelladrif 4.5 8.1 Tatasberg Wilderness Camp KODASPIEK Nouroep 18.5 9.8 Sandfontein 979 RT13 GROOT PELLABERGE o Lawrence se Puts 1179 o RT11 29 00 Klein Pella 29 00 29°54’19” S 18°44’30” E 11.6 2.3 Dabenoris 28°15’00” RT6 RT12 28°15’13”S 17°13”15”E 29°59’45” S 18°45’51” E Swart Aroams 28°16’34”S 17°22’17”E RT15 9.1 Richtersberg Wortel 29 01’40” S 18’52”35 E PELLA 6.7 Koisabis 29°02’02” S 18°24’10” E 1 0.7 4.4 o o 28°18’23”S 17°17’16”E 29 03 29 03 RT14 RT16 13.2 o 30 o o 11 Kokerboomkloof 18 15 45 19 00 19 10 1:250 000, HIGH-DETAIL INFORMATION MAP 15.3 13.1 RT7 TATASBERG PARADYSBERG 1026 7.9 GPS CO-ORDINATES 795 5.4 11.5 RT8 THE RICHTERSVELD NATIONAL PARK creation, when continents moved and plates shifted ists. Damage to the area will eventually rob them of BOOKING INFO ACCOMMODATION + BOOKING INFO 210 The Richtersveld National Park was proclaimed and buckled. Now, the softer material has been their livelihoods. No driving at night, do not remove online: www.sanparks.org RT17 RT10 28°23’15”S 17°09’35”E 8.2 in August 1991 and integrated into the Ai-Ais/Rich- eroded and has left behind barren, sandy plains, plants and stay on existing, well-used tracks. email:[email protected] AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF NATIONAL PARK 19.2 Gannakouriep 9.4 tersveld Transfrontier Park in 2003. It measures called the Springbok- phone: central reservations: +27 12 428 9111 Wilderness Camp RT9 162 445 hectares and is the only mountain desert vlakte. VEHICLE REQUIRED fax: +27 12 343 0905 VANDERSTERRBERG park in Southern Africa. The feeling of wilderness and isolation is the Most of the park is easily negotiable by high-clear- TSWAIES Springbokvlakte INFOMAP MEANS HIGH-DETAIL Life in the park is influenced by the mist created by primary attraction of the park where, unlike other ance 4x2 vehicles although heavy duty tyres are RT19 the cold Atlantic Ocean, known to the local Nama national parks, you are not confined to your vehicle advised. .. 28°26’50”S 16°59’37”E people as the ‘huries’ or ‘malmokkie’ which brings and are free to walk around, enjoying the scenery SUVs should cope well but should stay away from RT18 RICHTERSVELD NATIONAL View Point D210 Kuboes Kokerboom forest in moisture to an otherwise parched land. and the vegetation. the 4x4-only tracks along the Orange River. Towing Sanddrif RESTRICTEDWondergat 2 PARK Sanddrif Tourist Information 28°23’37”S 17°10’09”E The mountains of the Richtersveld are truly awe- Please take care of this beautiful park and con- of trailers should pose no problem but they should Tourist Information Echo Canyon at view point. 027 831 2375 1363 Walk 500m north-west from TATASBERG inspiring and landscape photographers, botanists sider those that follow you. Take only photographs be heavy-duty types. The Richtersveld is remote 027 831 1457 Hakkiesdoring view point to look over the broad plain. 4.6 Face north. Try the echo from this point. Kokerboomkloof and lovers of remote places will find endless plea- and memories. Leave only footprints. Do not leave and potentially hostile to the ill-equipped. Travellers 6.3 Kuboes Trails Camp MOUNT TERROR 1026 corrugations Die Toon sures in its richness.The granites, dolorite, quartz, the road and create new tracks! must take three days of food and water in case of 5.1 5 1224 28°19’45”S 17°16’44”E sandstones and shales of the region were formed Many communities enjoy the benefits of visitors to vehicle breakdown. 2.9 2.2 3 4 ROSYNTJIEBERG and crafted during the early phases of the planet’s the area by receiving income generated by tour- 4.5 Distance chart 1329 Sendelingsdrif to Kuboes 57km Brandkaros 0.9 Sendelingsdrif to Eksteenfontein 107km 28°20’02”S 17°15’03”E Mining Area scenic route 8.5 Sendelingsdrif to Lekkersing 127km Sendelingsdrif to Sanddrift 54km 1.8 D316 D213 G E 8.1 Sendelingsdrif to Alexanderbaai 90km N Very slippery when wet Glybank 5.7 2.4 RT10 Sendelingsdrif to Port Nolloth 180km A 22.1 28°30’00” Sendelingsdrif to Steinkopf 270km R 8.8 Beesbank LEGEND 28°30’00” Sendelingsdrif to Springbok 320km O 28°20’45”S 17°19’21” E Sendelingsdrif to Cape Town 875km Rosynebos Sendelingsdrif to Upington 720km 6 7 N Sendelingsdrif to Vioolsdrif 126km National Route Vioolsdrif to Eksteenfontein 45km Beauvallon 28°28’46”S 16 41’05”E PLOEGBERG 7 Brandkaros RT9 382 Main road 027 8311 856 GPS coordinates at Track follows river bank 28°21’55”S 17°14’09”E Good gravel road RICHTERSVELD WORLD intersections 1 28°17’29”S 16°56’24”E Gravel track - 4x2 12 HERITAGE SITE - Oranjemund Alexander 2 -28°25’20”S 16°53’28”E 06:00-22:00 610 4x4-only track Bay 3 -28°27’55”S 16°52’06”E To Rosh Pinah 4 28°27’40”S 16°53’57”E Railway 20kms 1214 C13 - 6 CORNELLSBERG INFOMAP’S ADVENTURE ROAD MAPS: 5 -28°27’50”S 16°56’50”E ORANJEMUND SOUTHERN AFRICA STATES HYPSOMETRIC TINTS 6 -28°31’21”S 16°55’13”E Powerline ALEXANDER WURMKOP 1374 28º41’59” S 17º31’59” E Lesotho 1: 400 000 BAY B5 SOUTH AFRICA NAMIBIA 7 -28°40’56”S 16°58’56”E Nature Reserve Amanzi River Camp Namibia 1:1 400 000 8 -28°43’36”S 17°07’44”E Alexander Bay 290 Tourist Information +264 63 297 255 Mozambique 1:1 800 000 0 - 300m 9 -28°49’33”S 17°14’31”E Perennial water Zambia 1:1 100 000 10 -28°49’26”S 17°15’16”E 92 027 8311 330 THE BLACK HILLS +27 21 559 1573 Non-perennial water Tierhoek Basterfontein Swaziland 1: 300 000 300 - 600m 11 -28°51’02”S 17°17’56”E Fluorspar Valley Botswana 1:1 100 000 12 -28°54’37”S 17°20’52”E Dry pan Tanzania 1:1 300 000 13 -28°51’44”S 17°20’50”E 600 - 900m Water point Kaokoveld and Bushmanland 1:620 000 GPS coordinates in RNP Angola 1:1 660 000 TORKOP 28º41’18”S. 17º33’49”E 900 - 1200m Built up area . Zimbabwe 1:1 300 000 RT1 -28°06’45”S 16°56’10”E STINKFONTEINBERGE Felix Unite RT2 -28°07’25”S 17°00’32”E 488 SOUTH AFRICA REGIONAL 1200 - 1800m Small settlement ALEXANDER BAY Sun Valley +264 63297161 Richtersveld 1:250 000 RT3 -28°11’32”S 17°03’10”E 7 RT4 -28°12’43”S 17°05’20”E Homestead Transkei Wild Coast 1:250 000 1800 - 2100m A E Kotzeshoop Drakensberg and Eastern Freestate 1: 300 000 RT5 -28°11’07”S 17°07’25”E G Spes Bona TRUE Guesthouse/hotel H R RT6 -28°15’51”S 17°08’04”E o E Kruger National Park and the Lowveld 1: 300 000 lg I B Swartbas RT7 -28°18’19”S 17°07’40”E Chalet T at 16.1 O Modderdrif-Suid 11.8 Northern Natal Coast 1: 300 000 R O Mean magnetic declination: 19° W RT8 -28°19’27”S 17°11’13”E Matjieskloof Cape West Coast and the Cedarberg 1: 300 000 Campsite Cape Voltas Co-ordinates: Datum WGS84 South Africa National Parks multiple-scale RT9 -28°21’55”S 17°14’09”E L Witbank 8 RT10-28°20’45”S 17°19’21”E 11.1 Displayed in deg/min/seconds Also available as downloads from www.infomap.co.za No Entry Kanikaip RT11-28°14’42”S 17°12’56”E A RT12-28°15’13”S 17°13’57”E Mine 28º46’07”S 17º37’28”E WILDEPERDERANT RT13-28°13’49”S 17°03’19”E Rooibank .

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