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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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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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Set within the coastal desert of Namibia are the biggest sand dunes in the world. They attract a vast number of travellers each year, many of whom aim to climb up the sands and enjoy a thrilling slide back down. But how much do you know about them? Here are ten lesser-known facts about the Namib sand dunes. 1.
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With its red dunes rolling endlessly into the ocean, the Namib is the oldest desert in the world — a sea of silica stretching along Namibia 's entire Atlantic coast. In the local Nàmá.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) used a long lens to document what crews have termed one of the most spectacular features of the planet: the dunes of the Namib Sand Sea. Looking inland (from an ISS position over the South Atlantic) near sunset, the highest linear dunes show smaller linear dunes riding along their crests.
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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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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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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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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.