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Geographical travel: this month we climb to the mysterious summit of Venezuela's Mount Roraima--the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World--talk to the founder of responsible walking-tour company ATG Oxford, and take a tour of the pas

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From: Geographical
Date: 20040101
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SOSSUSVLEI, NAMIB DESERT, NAMIBIA

In the middle of the Namib Desert, antelope graze beneath the towering bulk of a huge sand dune. Having endured arid and semi-arid conditions for tire past 80 million years or so, this narrow strip of land in Namibia on southern Africa's west coast is one of the world's oldest deserts. Like South America's Atacama, its rival for the title, the Namib has been maintained more recently by an icy ocean current--in this case the Benguela, which originates in Antarctica and condenses moisture before it can be blown ashore.

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