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Swakopmund was the filming location for Mad Max: Fury Road. [27] In August 2008, filming commenced in Swakopmund on the AMC television series The Prisoner starring Jim Caviezel and Sir Ian McKellen. Swakopmund is the film location for The Village. [28] In 2002, the city appeared on The Amazing Race 2 [29] and was visited again in The Amazing ...
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Walvis Bay, fully incorporated into the Erongo Region in 1994, is the principal home of Namibia's fishing industry. Walvis Bay also boasts the only deep sea port and is the second largest town in the country. Swakopmund and Langstrand are popular beach resorts; Arandis supports mining industry and Swakopmund boasts manufacturing.
The Swakopmund–Windhoek line was a main 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) narrow-gauge railway line in Namibia. It was built in 1897 and operated until 1990 when the route name was changed. Today the route via Swakopmund to Walvis Bay operates under the name of Windhoek–Kranzberg railway and the Kranzberg–Walvis Bay railway.
By 1902 the line was completed. Parallel to this government initiative the Otavi Mining and Railway Company (O.M.E.G.) was established which built a line from Swakopmund to Tsumeb via Otavi between 1903 and 1906, and a branch from Otavi to Grootfontein in 1907/08. [3] In 1914 the following railway lines existed:
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Swakopmund was the starting point of the first state railway line in German South West Africa. The railway station was built in 1901, as a terminal on the Imperial Germany's colonial Kaiserliche Eisenbahn line connecting Swakopmund with the capital Windhoek. [2] The station was designed by Willi Sander, who also later designed Swakopmund ...