Roggeveld Mountains

The range forms the western escarpment of the eponymous Roggeveld plateau, and separates it from the lower lying Tankwa Karoo to the west.

Its highest peak is Sneeukrans (1,739 m), situated northwest of Sutherland.

Unmarked on many regional maps, it occupies an extensive but remote part of the Northern Cape, seldom visited by tourists.

It extends from the vicinity of Calvinia in the northwest, past Sutherland in the south, where it terminates in the Klein-Roggeveld range.

The range receives about 200 mm of rainfall in an average year, its higher elevations are amongst the coldest places in South Africa, as attested by temperature statistics kept for Sutherland, which is perched on the Roggeveld plateau at 1,500 m.