Notice board at the picnic site Union's End is the northwesternmost point in

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and the northernmost point of the

Northern Cape The Northern Cape ( ; ; ) is the largest and most sparsely populated Provinces of South Africa, province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley, South Africa, Kimberley. It includes ...

as well as of Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality and

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within this province. It is the point where the borders of South Africa,

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, and

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intersect. Where the

Nossob River The Nossob River (also Nosob or Nossop; ''ǂnuse ǃab'', Khoikhoi for black river) is a dry river bed in eastern Namibia and the Kalahari region of South Africa and Botswana. It covers a distance of 740 km and last flooded in 1989. The riv ...

flowing from the northwest (from Gobabis, Leonardville, and Aranos) crosses the 20th meridian of longitude east of Greenwich (the eastern border of Namibia), the

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lies in the middle of the dry riverbed. It is located in

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, where beacons indicate the borders with Botswana and South Africa. On the Namibian side of the border are farms, and since 1966, a straight fence has spanned the border. The name of the point dates to the

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. A picnic table, information board (under a reed-thatched roof) and more directions can be found at . It lies around 555 km from

Upington Upington () is a town founded in 1873 and located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, on the banks of the Orange River. The town was originally called Olijvenhoutsdrift ('Olive wood drift'), due to the abundance of olive wood trees i ...

(6 hours' drive), 284 km from Twee Rivieren Restcamp, and 25 km from Grootkolk Wilderness Camp.

Sources

* Green, Lawrence G. ''To the river's end''. Cape Town: Timmins, 1948. Nature reserves in South Africa Borders of Botswana Borders of Namibia Borders of South Africa Border tripoints Geography of the Northern Cape Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality {{NorthernCape-geo-stub