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Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Swakopmund Swakopmund ~1903 28 m masonry tower ... Swakopmund Lighthouse. Pelican Point Lighthouse. Dias Point Lighthouse.
Swakopmund is a popular beach resort and characterized by 19th century German colonial architecture. The city was founded in 1892 as the main harbour for German South West Africa . Buildings in the city include the Altes Gefängnis , a prison designed by Heinrich Bause in 1909.
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Walvis Bay, fully incorporated into the Erongo Region in 1994, is the principal home of Namibia's fishing industry. Walvis Bay also boasts the only deep sea port and is the second largest town in the country. Swakopmund and Langstrand are popular beach resorts; Arandis supports mining industry and Swakopmund boasts manufacturing.
The first shop was established during that time. A lighthouse was erected to guide ships along the dangerous Namibian coast. In the 1960s mining holes were dug after diamonds had been found in the area on a few occasions. A few years later mining was abandoned due to lack of success.
The Spitzkoppe (from German for "pointed dome"; also referred to as Spitzkop, Groot Spitzkop, or the "Matterhorn of Namibia") is a group of bald granite peaks or inselbergs located between Usakos and Swakopmund in the Namib desert of Namibia.
Langstrand (Afrikaans and German for "Long Beach", which the residential area is often called by English-speaking tourists) is a small beach resort on the Atlantic coast in western Namibia. Langstrand and its neighboring sister resort Dolfynstrand lies between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund.
One of his first works were the Swakopmund Railway Station, built in 1901, and the Swakopmund Lighthouse (1902). [3] Also in Windhoek , his buildings today are all famous landmarks. The three castles of Windhoek, Heinitzburg , Schwerinsburg and Sanderburg , are what he is best known for here but he also built the Gathemann and Erkrath buildings ...