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.
This massive business now controlled trade of all types across much of Canada, and in what is now called British Columbia. When they established a trading post at Victoria in 1843, the United States staked its claim to part of the land in what was then called Oregon County. That dispute over land rights was finally settled in 1846 between British North America and the United States.