A Look Back
The Oranjemund Coast is famous for it’s shipwrecks, and it is also known at the Skeleton Coast for the amount of people that perish there. It’s been an extremely common area for ships where their they met their fates. The area is where the Atlantic Ocean and the deserts of Namibia meet. Ships such as the German Eduard Bohlen sun in 1909, The Otavi from Guano in 1945, the British Dunedin Star in 1942, the Natal Coast in 1955, and so many more. Even in the most recent of times ships have wrecked, like the Zeila in 2008 and The Suiderkus in 1997. Like so many before, the ship carried some extremely valuable and prized possessions of these 500 year gone deadmen. The dunes are riddles with those that have passed, including animals that could not survive the harsh and cruel environment.