Looking down a remote pass, surrounded by the steep Basalt cliffs, in the Drakensberg Mountains along the Border of South Africa and Lesotho. These ic

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Looking down a remote pass, surrounded by the steep Basalt cliffs, in the Drakensberg Mountains along the Border of South Africa and Lesotho. These iconic cliffs and peaks of the Drakensberg Mountains formed due to the combination of the Jurassic period large flood basalt due to the break-up of the Gondwana Supercontinent and erosion from the later uplift of the African Continent.

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Location: Cathedral Peak, Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa
Photo credit: © Marieke Peche / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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