proper noun

• 1A city in South Africa, the capital of Northern Cape; population 183,000 (est. 2009). It has been a diamond-mining centre since the early 1870s.

  Origin

  Named after the 1st Earl of Kimberley, a British Colonial Secretary.

• 2also the KimberleysA plateau region in the far north of Western Australia. It was the scene of a gold rush in 1885.