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7 unusual facts about Skeleton Coast


A Twist of Sand

The only problem is that nobody trusts anybody else and the only way to retrieve the diamonds is to navigate the dangerous waters of the Skeleton Coast, a place where few ships have ever survived.

Andy Biggs

His photograph, Skeleton Coast of Namibia, shows the Skeleton Coast of Namibia as seen from an airplane.

Beyond Boundaries

They have to work together as a group to cross the two oldest deserts in the world, avoid lions and rhinos, and ride the world’s most dangerous rapids at Victoria Falls before reaching their destination on the Skeleton Coast.

Eduard Bohlen

The Eduard Bohlen was a ship that ran aground off the coast of Namibia's Skeleton Coast on September 5, 1909, in a thick fog.

MV Dunedin Star

MV Dunedin Star I was a Blue Star Line ship that ran aground on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia on November 29, 1942 while carrying passengers and cargo from Liverpool to Saldanha Bay, South Africa and to Aden and Egypt.

Skeleton Coast

The fictional plot of the 1968 movie "A Twist of Sand" involves diamonds hidden in a shipwreck buried in the sand dunes of the Skeleton Coast.

The Burning Shore

The ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and Centaine lands on the Skeleton Coast.


Henties Bay

Specifically in danger are the lichen fields which take decades to recover from tracks cut through them, and the Damara Tern which is endemic to the Skeleton Coast and threatened by habitat loss.


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