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.
How did the US recieve the Oregon Cession (Oregon, Washington, Idaho(who, when, how,why wanted). Britain, 1846, Us demanded wanted Oregon. Since neither side wanted war, Britain and the US agreed to sigh a treaty in 1840 that gave the US oregon land south of the 49th parallel.(spain and russia also claimed but dropped). Wanted port acess.