Oscarberg

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The Oscarberg is a large hill 350 yards to the southeast (and rear) of the two buildings which formed the station at The Battle of Rourke's Drift. The Zulus called the hill Shiyane, or "The Eyebrow." When the trading post, which had been built in 1845, was sold to the Norwegian Missionary Society in 1878, the Reverend Otto Witt, a Swedish missionary, renamed the Shiyane as the "Oscarberg" (or sometimes "Oskarsberg") after the King of Sweden.

It was used by Zulu snipers who fired down on the defenders^{[citation needed]}. Neither the marksmanship nor the antiquated firearms of the natives were up to the standard of the troops at that time or resulting casualties would have been significant. The Oscarberg is portrayed in the famous painting by Alphonse Marie De Neuville.