The Kalahari Desert covers over 360,000 square miles in Africa. Many deserts have very little water fall, but this one has enough to produce fairly lush plants. That is why this desert is considered a semi arid desert, unlike the Atacama Desert in which only about 1 millimeter of rain falls every year.
It as the name, but the Kalahari Desert isn’t a desert by the strict definition. 250 millimeters of rain falls in some areas. However, the rain is sporadic, so it’s called a desert. Native languages call this place great thirst or place without water.
The Kalahari Desert wasn’t always desert like. There was once a lake there. The lake covered a huge area, 80 thousand square kilometers. By comparison Makgadikgadi was about the size of Lake Superior. The average depth was about 30 meters. The lake disappeared completely about 10,000 years ago.
The Kalahari Desert was the site of an episode of survivor man in which the survival expert stayed there for six days. It was 107.6
