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The land spanned nearly 170 kilometres (110 mi) from Okaukuejo in the west to Fischer's Pan in the east. The price for the land was £300 sterling, paid for by 25 firearms, one salted horse and a cask of brandy. [5] Dorstland Trekkers first travelled through the park between 1876 and 1879 on their way to Angola. The trekkers returned in 1885 ...
Okaukuejo is the administrative center for the Etosha National Park in Namibia. It is located approximately 650 km from the capital Windhoek . An average annual rainfall of around 350 millimetres (14 in) is received, although in the 2010/2011 rainy season 676 millimetres (26.6 in) were measured.
Named after a common duiker was observed drinking water at this waterhole, which was unusual because duikers rarely drink water. Okavao Otjovasando: Herero: Probably from Herero word "oruvao" meaning "place of the shield" Leeukamp Otjovasando: Afrikaans: Means "lion camp" in Afrikaans.
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Okaku Constituency (red) in the Oshana Region (yellow) Okaku Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Oshana Region of Namibia.It had 19,262 inhabitants in 2004 [1] and 10,384 registered voters in 2020. [2]
The Fairy Tale Forest (Afrikaans: sprokieswoud) is situated in the Etosha National Park in the Kunene Region, Namibia, near Grünewald Farm.It is an open forest of Moringa ovalifolia ("Fairy tale trees").
Donald Thomson writes: Just before we left, the old men recited to me the names of more than fifty waters – wells, rockholes and claypans ... this, in an area that the early explorers believed to be almost waterless, and where all but a few were, in 1957, still unknown to the white man.