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.
Oregon Country was a portion of land between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains in the northwest portion of the present-day United States. In 1818, the United States and Britain agreed to a joint occupation of Oregon, allowing citizens of both countries to settle there.Over the next several decades, American and British settlers came to Oregon for different reasons.n 1818, the United States and Britain agreed to a joint occupation of Oregon, allowing citizens of both countries to settle there. Over the next several decades, American and British settlers came to Oregon for different reasons.