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on the beaches. In the days before engine-powered ships and boats, it was possible to get ashore through the surf, but impossible to launch from the shore. The only way out was by going through a marsh hundreds of kilometres long and only accessible via a hot and arid desert.
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by the Angolans) for much of the year. The winds blow from land to sea, rainfall rarely exceeds 10 millimetres (0.39 in) annually, and the
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The true story of the wrecking of the big British passenger liner Dunedin Star and the eventual rescue of her more than 100 passengers and crew
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Namibia has declared the 16,000 square kilometres (6,200 sq mi) area of coastline and adjacent deserts, scrub and marshlands as
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The name "Skeleton Coast" was coined by John Henry Marsh as the title for the book he wrote chronicling the shipwreck of the
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The coast is largely made up of soft sand occasionally interrupted by rocky outcrops. The southern section consists of
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caused by offshore rocks and fog. More than a thousand such vessels of various sizes litter the coast, notably the
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and form the base of the desert food chain. The desert bird assemblages have been studied in terms of their
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The area's name derives from the whale and seal bones that once littered the shore, partly due to the
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that uses the shifting sands of the coastline as a prominent plot device in the fourth entry in the
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featured the Skeleton Coast, and the shipwrecks there were utilized as part of an analogy by
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ran aground. All her 106 passengers and crew were eventually rescued, but at the cost of a
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Chirikure, Shadreck; Sinamai, Ashton; Goagoses, Esther; Mubusisi, Marina (October 2010).
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involves diamonds hidden in a shipwreck buried in the sand dunes of the Skeleton Coast.
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industry, although in modern times the coast also harbours the skeletal remains of the
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Named for whale and seal bones that used to litter the coast, partly due to
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aircraft and the lives of two rescuers. The account is recorded in a book
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One of the oldest shipwrecks in the Skeleton Coast region is that of the
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The riverbeds and flatlands further away from the beaches are home to
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plains, while north of Terrace Bay the landscape is dominated by high
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Harris, Lynn; Jones, Jennifer; Schnitzer, Kate (October 2012).
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has written an album inspired by his visit to the area, called
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when Namibia was under the rule of apartheid South Africa.
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Animals of the Skeleton Coast Adapted to a Desert Habitat
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One of many rusting ship hulls along the Skeleton Coast (
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The coast has been the subject of a number of wildlife
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Iona – Skeleton Coast Transfrontier Conservation Area
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sailors once referred to it as "The Gates of Hell".
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Index

Skeleton Coast (novel)
Skeleton Coast (film)
The Lawrence Arms
Otavi, shipwrecked 1945
21°36′44″S 14°32′24″E / 21.61222°S 14.54000°E / -21.61222; 14.54000
Namibia
Namib Desert
Atlantic Ocean
Kunene River
Swakop River
Etymology
whaling
shipwrecks
Atlantic
Namibia
Angola
Kunene River
Swakop River
Namib Desert
San people
Portuguese
upwelling
Benguela current
fogs
climate
surf
gravel
sand dunes
surfing
Swakopmund

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