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3 unusual facts about Usakos


Usakos

Usakos Railway Station connects the town to the Namibian railway network.

OMEG established a railway station and a repair shop which was used until the 1960s.

It is located on the B2 (Trans-Kalahari Highway), the main road between the Walvis Bay and Johannesburg.


Rudolf Marloth

Acting as a locum in Kimberley, he made collecting trips from 1885-1886 to the surrounding areas such as Kuruman in the Northern Cape and to South West Africa where he visited Aus, Lüderitz Bay, Walvis Bay, Usakos, Ubib, Karibib, Otjimbingwe and Okahandja.

South West African Class Hd

Number 40 was plinthed on the Usakos station platform, while number 41 was plinthed outside Otjiwarongo Railway Station.

Spitzkoppe

The Spitzkoppe (from German for "pointed dome"; also referred to as Spitzkop, Groot Spitzkop, or the "Matterhorn of Namibia"), is a group of bald granite peaks or bornhardts located between Usakos and Swakopmund in the Namib desert of Namibia.


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