DIFFLOCKEDTHE REGISTRY NAMED MODEL · 2012
NAMED MODELSpecial · CommercialUnited KingdomSouth Africa

Nkambeni Safari Defender

Fleet vehicle 14 of Nkambeni Safari Camp's game-drive Defenders inside Kruger National Park: green coachwork with a yellow stripe, a high canvas canopy over tiered passenger seats and the camp's fleet number on the side, one of a line of them photographed at the lodge in September 2012.

Drive it in the gameSources & evidence
Nkambeni Safari Defender — front three-quarter view, registry 3D render
BASE VEHICLEDefender 110BUILT BYLand RoverIN SERVICE2012OPERATED INSouth AfricaPRODUCTIONSmall fleetLAYOUT4 wheels · 110″

The record

Nkambeni Safari Camp sits inside the Kruger National Park near the Numbi Gate, on a concession that gives it the right to drive guests through the park's south-western corner. Its fleet is Land Rover Defenders converted for game viewing — the body behind the cab rebuilt as tiered rows of forward-facing seats under a high canvas canopy on a tubular frame, in green with a yellow stripe along the flank, each numbered so that the camp can marshal a line of them at dawn. The photograph by the Commons contributor Ossewa, taken on 23 September 2012, shows several drawn up at the lodge.

The registry's model follows vehicle 14. Who built the game-viewing bodies, which engines the fleet carries and how many vehicles Nkambeni runs are not published; the conversion trade in South Africa is local and largely undocumented, and the registry's Defender 130 safari record covers the type more generally.

Specification

MANUFACTURERLand Rover
MODIFIER / COACHBUILDERSouth African game-viewing conversion (converter not recorded)
MANUFACTUREDDefender 110 fleet in service by September 2012, when photographed
ENGINEDefender 110 — 300 Tdi, Td5 or Puma by year; not stated in the source
PRODUCTION RUNSmall fleet — several vehicles photographed together; total not published
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom / South Africa
OPERATED INSouth Africa
STATUSin service
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEDefender
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE110″
CATEGORYSpecial · Commercial

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

AI rendering impression

An AI rendering impression starts from the registry's own 3D model of this vehicle, which an image model then paints into a scene. It is an artist's impression of the type, made to give a feel for the vehicle in its element — not a photograph, and not a record of any particular vehicle.

Proportions, fittings, markings, colours and the setting can all drift from the original in the process. For the vehicle's actual details, rely on the registry's 3D renders, the specification and the cited sources on this page.

Where it was

ZA South Africa2012–2026 · Nkambeni Safari Camp, Kruger National Park
  1. BasedNkambeni Safari Camp, Kruger National ParkSouth Africa · 2012–2026-25.16, 31.20

Sources

  1. 1File:Land Rover Defenders Nkambeni.jpg (Land Rover Defenders at Nkambeni Tented Lodge, Kruger National Park, South Africa; photographed 23 September 2012 by Ossewa; CC BY 4.0) ↗Wikimedia Commons · accessed 2026-09-11SOURCE
  2. 2Land Rover Defender buyer's guide (200Tdi 1990–94; 300Tdi 1994–98; Td5 1998–2007; Puma from 2007) ↗Classics World · accessed 2026-09-11SOURCE
  3. 3https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Land_Rover_Defenders_Nkambeni.jpghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Land_Rover_Defenders_Nkambeni.jpg ↗REFERENCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-16T05:55:32.028Z · status: researched