in Africa. The Kalahari Desert (Dorsland in Afrikaans) is a large semi-arid savanna in South Africa covers 900,000 km Â² sand (350,000 square miles) that much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa.
The Oregon Territory, 1846. Along with territorial disputes with Spain and Mexico over the Southwest, the fate of the Oregon Territory was one of the major diplomatic issues of the first half of the 19th century.
The original Oregon Territory encompassed not just present-day Oregon but also Washington and much of British Columbia. The United States, Great Britain, Russia and Spain all initially claimed the territory. The United States based its claim to the land on the explorations of Lewis and Clark and the presence of trading posts set up by American citizen John Jacob Astor.