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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 ...
The Swakop River flooding 20 km outside Swakopmund on 15 February 2008. Where the Swakop meets the Atlantic Ocean (2017). Poles of the old railway bridge seen in the foreground. Aerial view of Swakop River (2017). The Swakop River (Khoekhoe: Tsoaxaub) [1] is a major river in western central Namibia. Its source is in the Khomas Highland.
Democratic Resettlement Community (DRC), a slum area of Swakopmund The Democratic Resettlement Community (DRC) is an informal settlement in Swakopmund , Erongo Region , Namibia . [ 1 ] It was founded in 2001 as a temporary resettlement community for people waiting for subsidized housing in the city and was built mostly of reclaimed garbage from ...
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.
Mondesa is a suburb of Swakopmund in central western Namibia. [1] The residential area is located in the northeast of the town. In the northwest, it borders on the neighbourhood Tamariskia and in the south on the industrial area.
Swakopmund constituency (red) in the Erongo Region. Swakopmund constituency is a constituency in the Erongo Region of Namibia. The constituency had a population of 44,725 in 2011, up from 26,310 in 2001. It covers 196.3 square kilometres (75.8 sq mi) of land. [1] Its district capital is the city of Swakopmund.
Until 1968 South West Africa used a system of one- and two-letter codes without prefixes. W stood for Windhoek, L for Lüderitz, R for Rehoboth, Sd for Swakopmund, T for Tsumeb and Wb for Walvis Bay. [7] The South African Defence Force also operated in South West Africa and used the same codes (U until 1961, and then R) as in South Africa.
The German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Swakopmund. The German-speaking Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (known as GELC, GELK, or DELK) is a Lutheran denomination based in Namibia. It was founded in 1960, [1] and has 4,100 members in 2023. [2] GELC joined the Lutheran World Federation in 1963. [3]