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The Skeleton Coast is the northern part of the Atlantic coast of Namibia. Immediately south of Angola , it stretches from the Kunene River to the Swakop River , although the name is sometimes used to describe the entire Namib Desert coast.
Skeleton Coast National Park is a national park located in northwest Namibia, and has the most inaccessible shores, dotted with shipwrecks. The park was established in 1971 and has a size of 16,845 km 2 (6,504 sq mi). [ 2 ]
The Iona–Skeleton Coast Transfrontier Conservation Area is a transfrontier conservation area.It encompasses Iona National Park and Namibe Partial Reserve in Angola and Skeleton Coast National Park in Namibia, making it one of the largest in the world. [1]
A confrontation at the Cape Cross seal colony. Cape Cross is a protected area owned by the government of Namibia under the name Cape Cross Seal Reserve. The reserve is the home of one of the largest colonies of Cape fur seals in the world.
Skeleton Coast is a 1987 South African-made mercenary war film directed by John Cardos in the first of three films for producer Harry Alan Towers. It was the first of Towers' Breton Film Productions. It was the first of Towers' Breton Film Productions.
Eduard Bohlen was a ship that was wrecked on the Skeleton Coast of German Southwest Africa (now Namibia) on 5 September 1909 in a thick fog. The wreck currently lies in the sand 400 m (1,300 ft) from the shoreline. [2] [1]
Clan Alpine Shoal off the coast of the Skeleton Coast in Namibia is a reef that has caused two major shipwrecks.. It lies about 8 km from the coast, south of the mouth of the Cunene River and 200 km from Cape Fria, at 18°8′ S 11°33′ E.
However, at 22h30 on 29 November off the Skeleton Coast of South West Africa she struck an underwater obstacle, [10] presumed by the subsequent South African Court of Inquiry to be the poorly charted Clan Alpine Shoal. [citation needed] Her wireless operator sent a distress signal, which was received ashore at Walvis Bay.