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Etosha Pan during wet season, Etosha Lookout/Halali. The Etosha Pan is a large endorheic salt pan, forming part of the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin in the north of Namibia.It is a vast hollow in the ground in which water may collect or in which a deposit of salt remains after water has evaporated.
It spans an area of 22,270 km 2 (8,600 sq mi) and was named after the large Etosha pan which is almost entirely within the park. With an area of 4,760 km 2 (1,840 sq mi), the Etosha pan covers 23% of the total area of the national park. [3]
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Namibia are not as numerous as in neighboring South Africa, but several formations have provided unique fossil assemblages, particularly the Ediacaran fauna of the Vendian to Cambrian Nama Group, fossil fish in the Carboniferous to Permian Ganigobis Formation and Eocene Langental Formation, typical Permian Gondwanan biota in the Huab, Gai-As and Whitehill ...
The Owambo Basin is host to two famous regions: Tsumeb, a major Namibian city and site of a formerly active copper mine with exceptional mineralogical variability producing museum quality rare specimens, [2] and Etosha National Park, the largest protected wildlife sanctuary in Namibia centered around Etosha Pan.
This is the second largest pan in the park after the Etosha pan. Pan Point Okaukuejo: English: A bore-hole at the southernmost point of a cone-shaped pan. Panpoint Pan Okaukuejo: English: A pan named after Pan Point, which incidentally got its name from the pan. Brakwater Okaukuejo: Afrikaans: From a bore-hole that existed here that produced ...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. [1]
The Cuvelai-Etosha Basin is a transboundary wetland area shared by Angola and Namibia extending over 450 kilometres from north to south. Covering almost 160,000 km 2 , the widest point of the basin is along the Angola-Namibia border from the Kunene River east to the Okavango River .
Similarly, the Hoba Meteorite in northern Namibia, which is the largest known iron meteorite on Earth, is well protected as a national monument and attracts many visitors at the site and in the museum. The famous copper deposit at Tsumeb in northern Namibia was closed as a mine in 1996, but in addition to commercial sales of blister copper ...