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The Namib-Naukluft Park is a national park in western Namibia, situated between the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and the edge of the Great Escarpment. It encompasses part of the Namib Desert (considered the world's oldest desert), the Naukluft mountain range , and the lagoon at Sandwich Harbour .
The Naukluft Mountains are a nappe complex: a stack of rock units which have been transported toward the southeast on a basal thrust fault.The first geological maps and cross-sections of the mountain range were made in the 1930s by Henno Martin and Hermann Korn.
The Namib (/ ˈ n ɑː m ɪ b / NAH-mib; [1] Portuguese: Namibe) is a coastal desert in Southern Africa.According to the broadest definition, the Namib stretches for more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia, and northwest South Africa, extending southward from the Carunjamba River in Angola, through Namibia and to the Olifants River in Western Cape ...
The woodlands cover the Namib escarpment, which rises from the low-lying Namib coastal plain to the Southern African plateau on the east. Baynes (2038 m), Erongo (2319 m), Naukluft (1974 m), Spitzkoppe (1759 m), and Gamsberg (2347 m) mountains lie along the edge of the escarpment.
Naukluft Mountain Zebra Park is a protected reserve of Namibia. It is located south of Gamsberg Nature Reserve, northwest of Hardap Game Reserve and north of Namib-Naukluft National Park. [1] The Naukluft section of the Namib-Naukluft Park was initially created as a sanctuary for the Hartmann's mountain zebra. [2]
The Namib Desert (considered the world's oldest desert) and the Naukluft mountain range are part of the park. The desert dunes taper off near the coast, and lagoons, wetlands, and mudflats. In the hyper-arid region faunal species reported are snakes, geckos , unusual insects, hyenas , gemsboks and Black-backed jackals .
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Brandberg massif Brukkaros volcano Geological map of Erongo Dinosaur track at Otjihaenamaparero Bushman's Paradise at Spitzkoppe Vingerklip Rangea scheiderhoehni is one of the special fossils from Namibia which is from the Ediacaran period. Specimen found in the Ediacaran Kliphoek member of the Dabis Formation on Farm Aar, near Aus, Namibia.