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Walvis Bay, with its large bay and sand dunes, is an important centre of tourism activity in Namibia. Attractions include the artificial Bird Island , centre of a guano collection industry, the Dune 7 sand dune, the salt works, the abundant birdlife, and a museum.
Tutaleni (meaning let’s watch in Oshiwambo) is an informal settlement on the northern outskirts of Walvis Bay, in the Erongo region of Namibia. Popularly known by locals as the Tutaleni village or simply Tuta, it is home to about 1000 families living on 1200 plots measuring 300 sq.m each.
Walvis Bay is a tourist hotspot that offers a number of activities. Water-related activities include shore angling, boat angling, shark angling, sightseeing and photographic boat cruises, sea kayaking, wind- and kite surfing. Every year Walvis Bay hosts one of the international legs of speed kite and windsurfing competitions.
Bird Island as seen from the Namibian coast. Bird Island is a man-made platform off the coast of Namibia between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund.It serves as a breeding ground for birds (primarily Cape cormorants) and yields guano, which is collected and sold, as a highly effective fertilizer.
After Namibia became an independent country, the reserve became a part of Namibian territory as part of the Walvis Bay enclave. There was a proposal to name the reserve Walvis Bay National Park which proved fruitless and finally the central part of the coast area was named Dorob National Park.
Located about 80 km south of Walvis Bay, the area is within the Erongo Region.The bay opens to the north and is about 4.2 km long and 4 km wide. There is a shallow lagoon lying south of the bay, separated from it by an area of beach ridges and swales with saltpans.
The Pelican Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse overlooking the Atlantic Ocean from the Pelican Point peninsula, a long sandbar guarding Walvis Bay, Namibia. It was inaugurated by the South African government in 1932. The round, cast-iron, 34-meter-high tower features a lantern and gallery and is painted in horizontal black and white bands. [1]
Walvis Bay on a 1978 map, and reference to South Africa before the handover to Namibia. The Penguin Islands on an extract from a 1897 map of colonial Southern Africa.. This article lists the colonial governors of Walvis Bay, a city in the modern day Republic of Namibia (currently the third largest city in the country).
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