Editing Geography of Namibia (section)

===Kalahari Desert===
[[File:Gewitter in der Kalahari.jpg|thumb|[[Thunderstorm]] in the Kalahari near [[Stampriet]]]]
The [[Kalahari Desert]] is perhaps Namibia's best-known geographical feature. Shared with South Africa and [[Botswana]], it has a variety of localised environments ranging from hyper-arid sandy desert to areas that seem to defy the common definition of desert. One of these areas, known as the [[Succulent Karoo]], is home to over 5,000 species of plants, nearly half of them endemic; fully one-third of the world's succulents are found in the Karoo.

The reason behind this high productivity and endemism may be the relatively stable nature of precipitation.<ref name="Spriggs, A. 2001.(AT0709)">Spriggs, A. 2001.(AT0709)</ref> The Karoo apparently does not experience drought regularly, so even though the area is technically a desert, regular winter rains provide enough moisture to support the region's interesting plant community. Another feature of the Kalahari, indeed many parts of Namibia, are [[inselberg]]s, isolated mountains that create microclimates and habitats for organisms not adapted to life in the surrounding desert matrix.