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Etosha National Park is a national park in northwestern Namibia and one of the largest national parks in Africa. [1] It was proclaimed a game reserve in March 1907 in Ordinance 88 by the Governor of German South West Africa , Friedrich von Lindequist .
It is a vast hollow in the ground in which water may collect or in which a deposit of salt remains after water has evaporated. The 120-kilometre-long (75-mile-long) dry lakebed and its surroundings are protected as Etosha National Park, Namibia's second-largest wildlife park, covering 22,270 square kilometres (8,600 sq mi). The pan is mostly ...
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. [1]
ǀAi-ǀAis Hot Springs Game Park; Bwabwata National Park; Dorob National Park; Etosha National Park; Khaudum National Park; Mangetti National Park; Mudumu National Park; Namib-Naukluft National Park; Nkasa Rupara National Park; Skeleton Coast National Park; Tsau ǁKhaeb National Park; Waterberg Plateau Park
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Namutoni is a restcamp on the eastern edge of the Etosha pan in the Oshikoto Region in northern Namibia. The adjoining Von Lindequist Gate about 10km east is one of the entrance gates to the Etosha National Park. Shelter for wildlife observation at Namutoni. The most prominent structure at Namutoni is Fort Namutoni, built in 1896.
Part of the reserve remains protected as Etosha National Park and this includes a large area of mopane woodland but the widespread poaching and uncontrolled hunting which began with the dismantling of the reserve and the Namibian War of Independence still continues in Etosha and other private reserves in Namibia.
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