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The Trans-Kalahari Corridor is a paved highway corridor that provides a direct route from the port of Walvis Bay and Windhoek in central Namibia, through Botswana, to Pretoria in Gauteng province in South Africa. It initially cost approximately 850 million Namibian dollars (US$115 million) and was officially opened in 1998.
The B1 is a national highway of Namibia, and is the country's longest and most significant road, running the length of the country from south to north.It connects Noordoewer in the south on the South African border with Oshikango in the north on the Angolan border via Namibia's capital city Windhoek.
An alternative map image, usually a relief map, which can be displayed via the relief or AlternativeMap parameters; top = -16.4 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = -29.6 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 11 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = 25.8 Longitude at right edge of ...
The A2 is a major component of the Trans-Kalahari Corridor, which is a highway corridor that provides a direct route from Pretoria to central Namibia, in particular to Windhoek and the port of Walvis Bay. There are potholes scattered around the road, causing immediate danger.
Direction determination refers to the ways in which a cardinal direction or compass point can be determined in navigation and wayfinding.The most direct method is using a compass (magnetic compass or gyrocompass), but indirect methods exist, based on the Sun path (unaided or by using a watch or sundial), the stars, and satellite navigation.
After crossing the border, it changes designation to B1 and runs north through Windhoek and the north of Namibia. The N7 national route forms the first section of the Tripoli-Cape Town Highway , which is a proposed link between Cape Town and Tripoli , the capital city of Libya , being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for ...
To the south by the line that commences at the mouth of the Orange River and continues up its northern bank to its intersection point with the 20th degree of east longitude. 2. To the east by the line that commences at the aforementioned point and follows the 20th degree of east longitude to its intersection point with the 22nd degree of south ...
The average portolan chart had sixteen such roses (or confluence of lines), spaced out equally around the circumference of a large implicit circle. The cartographer Cresques Abraham of Majorca , in his Catalan Atlas of 1375, was the first to draw an ornate compass rose on a map.