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Dune 45, located in Namib Naukluft Park, Namibia, is a popular tourist attraction known for its unique star shape and striking beauty. Standing at 170 metres, it is composed of 5-million-year-old sands, with a distinct reddish hue due to the high concentration of iron oxide. The dune's shape is a result of wind patterns and sediment.
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Sand dunes and outcrops add color and dimension across the Namib Sand Sea. Image of the Day for January 13, 2020 Instrument: Landsat 8 — OLI Land Remote Sensing View more Images of the Day: Jan 12, 2020 Jan 14, 2020 CNN Travel (2012, October 22) Romancing the dune in Namibia. Accessed December 30, 2019.
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The largest sand dunes of the world In the middle of the Namib Desert, in the Namib Naukluft Park two of Namibia's scenic highlights can be found: the Sossusvlei and Dead Vlei
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Today, tourists come to the Namib to see the spectacular rolling ochre sand dunes surrounding Sossusvlei, a salt and clay pan in the centre of Namib-Naukluft National Park - Africa's.
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Geography and geology Namib desert and ocean Sossusvlei, one of Namib's major tourist attractions, is a salt and clay pan surrounded by large dunes. The flats pictured here were caused by the Tsauchab stream after summer rains
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Namib, a cool coastal desert extending for 1,200 miles (1,900 km) along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Namibe (formerly Moçâmedes) in Angola southward across Namibia to the Olifants River in the Western Cape province of South Africa.It reaches inland 80 to 100 miles (130 to 160 km) to the foot of the Great Escarpment.The southern portion merges with the Kalahari on the plateau atop the.
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A strand plain is a series of dunes, usually associated with and parallel to a beach, sometimes containing small creeks or lakes. The complexity and regularity of dune patterns in the dune sea of the Namib Desert have attracted the attention of geologists for decades; however, they remain poorly understood.
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November 13, 2019 Mountains of sand, some as tall as 300 meters (1000 feet), reach from the floor of Africa's Namib Desert toward the sky. Driven by wind, these dunes march across the desert, bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and in other directions by solid, rocky land.
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Namib-Naukluft National Park is an ecological preserve in the Namib Desert in southwest Africa, thought to be Earth's oldest desert. The park is the largest game park in Africa, and a surprising collection of creatures manages to survive in the hyper-arid region, including snakes, geckos, unusual insects, hyenas, and jackals.
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Sossusvlei (sometimes written Sossus Vlei) is a salt and clay pan [1] surrounded by high red dunes, located in the southern part of the Namib Desert, in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia.
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The Sossusvlei area in southern Namib is known for its high sand dunes of vivid pink-to-orange color, the oldest dunes are those of more deep reddish color. Dune 45 is the most photographed dune in Namibia while Big Daddy is the highest dune in Namib Naukluft Park. The dunes in the area are among the highest in the world; some higher than 200.
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Sculpted by time and fierce Atlantic winds, the Namib sand sea has been on the move for a million years and counting. The fast-moving sands blanket a region of Africa's southwestern coast where treasures—from diamonds and ghost towns to rare and endangered species—have long captured human imaginations.
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Namib Sand Sea is the only coastal desert in the world that includes extensive dune fields influenced by fog. Covering an area of over three million hectares and a buffer zone of 899,500 hectares, the site is composed of two dune systems, an ancient semi-consolidated one overlain by a younger active one.
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Sand dunes of the Namib Desert. Photograph by Rudi Venter Fine Art America
The Namib Desert is a coastal desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola that encompasses the world's highest sand dunes, gravel plains, and rugged mountains.It stretches some 1,200 miles (1,900 km) along the Atlantic coast of Namibia, which is named after this desert. The name "Namib" is from a word in the Nama language that means "immense." The desert occupies an area of around 31,200 m².
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Sossusvlei Sand Dunes (highest dunes in the world), Namib Desert, NamibNaukluft National Park
Many of the highest dunes are found within the Namib Sand Sea, a section of the desert that spans 34,000 square kilometers (13,000 square miles) of coastal Namibia. The sand sea and its dunes are visible in this image, acquired on January 20, 2020, with the HawkEye sensor on the SeaHawk CubeSat.
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A land abounds with silty, ochre-colored sand dunes, ample opportunities for wildlife watching, and lines of rugged mountaintops jutting through the country— Namibia is often called "Land of.