Brandberg Mountain is located in former Damaraland, now Erongo, in the northwestern Namib Desert, near the coast, and covers an area of approximately 650 km2.

[3] With its highest point, the Königstein (German for 'King's Stone'), standing at 2,573 m (8,442 ft)[1] above sea level and located on the flat Namib gravel plains, on a clear day 'The Brandberg' can be seen from a great distance.

In the western interior of the massif (Naib gorge), a 2 km in diameter body of pyroxene-bearing monzonite is exposed.

The youngest intrusive rocks based on cross-cutting relations are arfvedsonite granite dikes and sills in the southwestern periphery of the Brandberg massif which crop out in the Amis valley.

Their angle of dip increases towards the contact where clasts of country rock occur within the granite forming a magmatic breccia.

[7] To reach The White Lady it is necessary to hike for about 40 minutes over rough terrain, along the ancient watercourses threading through the mountain.

[8] The higher elevations of the mountain contain hundreds of further rock paintings, most of which have been painstakingly documented by Harald Pager, who made tens of thousands of hand copies.

Pager's work was posthumously published by the Heinrich Bart Institute, in the six volume series "Rock Paintings of the Upper Brandberg" edited by Tilman Lenssen-Erz.

The area has many plants and trees that display an alien appearance, due in part to the extreme climatic conditions.

[10] A large and significant group of species has a disjunction between the Karroo-Namib region in the south, and the arid parts of north-east Africa.