The Waterberg Plateau rises in central Namibia, about 68 kilometers southeast of Otjiwarongo, protected within the 405-square-kilometer Waterberg Plateau Park, a nature reserve since 1972. Its oldest exposed rock stratum is more than 850 million years old, and the plateau's sandstone preserves dinosaur tracks left roughly 200 million years ago. The plateau stands out as a table mountain rising sharply above the surrounding plains of the Kalahari Sandveld, a prominent landmark visible from a considerable distance across the flat terrain around it. Beyond its geology, the site was declared a Namibian National Monument in 1956 and was the location of the 1904 Battle of Waterberg during the German colonial period. This entity documents the Waterberg Plateau specifically as a geological formation.
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and some 405 square kilometres (156 sq mi) of surrounding land were declared a Nature Reserve in 1972. As the plateau is largely inaccessible from beneath, several of Namibi
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Waterberg Plateau Park is a national park in central Namibia on the Waterberg Plateau, 68 kilometres (42 mi) south-east of Otjiwarongo.
In Group: Sedimentary Plateaus and Highlands, Lead sentence
Waterberg Plateau Park is a national park in central Namibia on the Waterberg Plateau, 68 kilometres (42 mi) south-east of Otjiwarongo.
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