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Before the town was proclaimed in 2011, this was the only road access to Oranjemund, as the Sperrgebiet covered all territory north and east of the town. Today Oranjemund is connected to Rosh Pinah via a tarred road along the Namibian shore of the Orange River. [4] Oranjemund Airport had scheduled flights to Cape Town, Lüderitz, Walvis Bay and ...
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Its fate was unknown until 2008, when its remains were discovered during diamond mining operations on the coast of Namibia, near Oranjemund. Today, the Bom Jesus is the oldest known and most valuable shipwreck ever discovered off the Western coast of Sub-Saharan Africa.
A map from 1964 to 1965 showing the Namibian "homelands" or Bantustans [9] when Namibia was under the rule of apartheid South Africa. Shipwreck of Eduard Bohlen Ugabmund Gate (Ugab River Gate) of the Skeleton Coast National Park ; note the skulls-and-crossbones in the gate
It spans the Atlantic Ocean-facing coast from Oranjemund on the border with South Africa, to around 72 kilometres (45 mi) north of Lüderitz, a distance of 320 km (200 mi) north. It extends to around 100 km (62 mi) inland, [2] and its total area of 26,000 km 2 (10,000 sq mi), [3] [4] makes up three percent of Namibia's land mass. [5]
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Rosh Pinah is a mining town [2] located in southern Namibia, close to the border with South Africa. It is situated 360 kilometres (220 mi) south of Keetmanshoop in Namibia's ǁKaras Region. West of the town lies Diamond Area 1, the main diamond mining area of Namibia. Rosh Pinah belongs to the Oranjemund electoral constituency.
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