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The Skeleton Coast is the northern part of the Atlantic coast of Namibia. Immediately south of Angola, it stretches from the Kunene River to the Swakop River, although the name is sometimes used to describe the entire Namib Desert coast.
Hostile and remote -- Namibia's Skeleton Coast. Stretching 500 kilometers between the old German colonial town of Swakopmund and the Angolan border, the coast is virtually uninhabited and...
The so called Skeleton Coast is a 40 km wide and 500 km long coastal stretch in Namibia, a hostile but fascinating area. Here the cold and unpredictable Benguela Current of the Atlantic Ocean clashes with the dune and desert landscape of north-western Namibia.
Skeleton Coast National Park is a national park located in northwest Namibia, and has the most inaccessible shores, dotted with shipwrecks. The park was established in 1971 and has a size of 16,845 km 2 (6,504 sq mi). [ 2 ]
Discover the top things to see on the Skeleton Coast in Namibia, including abandoned shipwrecks, desert-adapted wildlife and Himba villages.
Skeleton Coast is a national park located on Namibia’s northern coast. It covers 6,200sq miles, but very little of this space is easily accessible to the public. There’s only 100 miles of accessible road. The last 200 miles of coast can only be reached by plane.
The northern half of Namibia’s 976-mile coastline is known colloquially as the “Skeleton Coast,” due to the thousands of shipwrecks and whale carcasses that litter its shores. Though this massively beautiful and vast stretch of land is quite desolate and barren, it is also full of stories, surprises and hidden treasures.