Kenhardt has been for a long time the most remote Settlement in the North-Western Cape, founded in 1868. Kenhardt became a Municipality only in, 1909. The Hartebees River, with its many sweet thorn trees, provides a green belt, irrigated by the Rooiberg Dam. Which was constructed to supply irrigation demands of Kenhardt, because Kenhardt is famous for there: 'Dorper' sheep, farming. Verneukpan; South of Kenhardt. Th is a vast dry pan on which Sir Malcolm Campbell tried to set a new World land-speed record, in 1929. The pan is estimated to be 57 kilometers long and 11 kilometers wide.