About Valleys and Shipwrecks: Places and Spaces along the Swakop River and Skeleton Coast

A Guide to Valleys and Shipwrecks in Namibia: Places and Spaces along the Swakop River and Skeleton Coast.
Fahrbach, Hartmut O.
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Title: About Valleys and Shipwrecks
Subtitle: Places and Spaces along the Swakop River and Skeleton Coast
Author: Hartmut O. Fahrbach
Publisher: Scientific Society Swakopmund
Swakopmund, Namibia 2020
ISBN 9789994550258 / ISBN 978-99945-50-25-8
Softcover, 15 x 21 cm, 64 pages, zahlreiche sw-Abbildungen

About: About Valleys and Shipwrecks. Places and Spaces along the Swakop River and Skeleton Coast

About Valleys and Shipwrecks brings alive stories about travellers, adventurers, explorers and missionaries, but also locals, who passed through the lower Swakop valley and the Skeleton Coast at some time in our history. It covers places from the Langer Heinrich Mountain to the Atlantic Ocean and shipwrecks from Swakopmund to Terrace Bay on the Skeleton Coast. Among others, the Battle of Riet during the First World War is chronicled. A photograph shows General Louis Botha, in command of the Union of South Africa Defence Force, watching his soldiers attack German positions from his folding chair. The story of the flourishing past and present of Goanikontes is told, as well as the failed Toscanini diamond odyssey which remains a discussion of interest and speculation to this day. The events leading to some of the notable shipwrecks along the Skeleton Coast are recorded, with descriptions of their respective rescue operations. The impressive and wide-reaching rescue missions for the survivors of the Dunedin Star is highlighted. This amazing story has become part of Namibia’s folklore history.

About: About Valleys and Shipwrecks. Places and Spaces along the Swakop River and Skeleton Coast

The Swakop River Valley
Salem
Riet
Military Encounter WW 1
Wild Fig Tree
Husab
Ida Mine
Haigamkab
Frederick Green
Thomas Baines
Palmenhorst
Goanikontes
Weitzenberg
Kramer Salt Operation
Nonidas
Places and spaces from Swakopmund to Terrace Bay
Vineta
Salt Pans
Windpomp 14
Wlotzkasbaken
Lichen Fields
Henties Bay
Cape Cross
St. Nowhere
Skeleton Coast Park
Oil Rig
Toscanini
Torra Bay
Terrace Bay
Shipwrecks from Swakopmund to Terrace Bay on the Skeleton Coast
Gertrud Woermann II
Natal Coast
Zeila
Chamarel
Erycina
Fukuseki Maru No 7
Winston
S.W. Seal
Viente E Oito de Maio
Montrose
Henrietta Spashett
Suiderkus
Sir Charles Eliott
Dunedin Star

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