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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]
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 Owambo Basin is a sedimentary basin located on the Congo Craton in Southern Africa that extends from southern Angola into Namibia and includes the Etosha Pan.It is bound on the southern and western sides by the Damara Belt in Northern Namibia, and by the Cubango River to the East. [1]
It is situated about 70 kilometres (43 mi) from Etosha Pan and is the largest lake in the Cuvelai Basin. It holds water up to the following rainy season in a prosperous year. Because the lake maintains water for a long time a number of birds like flamingos and others temporarily move there, when the oshanas (flood plains), swamps, and other ...
The Kunene River with its Tributaries, the Etosha Pan and the Oshana system with the Ekuma (center down) The Ekuma River is one of three rivers that supply most of water to the pan in the Etosha National Park in Namibia, the other two being the Oshigambo River and the Omurambo Ovambo River.
Namutoni is a restcamp on the eastern edge of the Etosha pan in the Oshikoto Region in northern Namibia. The adjoining Von Lindequist Gate about 10km east is one of the entrance gates to the Etosha National Park. Shelter for wildlife observation at Namutoni. The most prominent structure at Namutoni is Fort Namutoni, built in 1896.
Pickford, Martin (2009), "Mio-Plio-Pleistocene geology and palaeobiology of Etosha Pan, Namibia" (PDF), Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia, 14: 95– 139 Senut , Brigite (2000), "Fossil ratite eggshells: A useful tool for Cainozoic biostratigraphy in Namibia" (PDF) , Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia , 12 : 421 ...