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3 unusual facts about Warmbad


Goodhouse

Locality with a landing-strip, on the southern bank of the Orange River, 60 km south-west of Warmbad and 60 km east-south-east of Vioolsdrif.

Warmbad, Namibia

Scientist Sir James Edward Alexander lived in one of its rooms during his stay in 1836.

In 1834, Wesleyan missionary Edward Cook entered the area and erected a new missionary building on the foundations of the destroyed buildings.


South West African 2-8-0T

The locomotives were placed in service on the line between Lüderitzbucht and Keetmanshoop and on the lines from the latter north to Windhoek and south to Warmbad.

ǁKhauxaǃnas

When the Rhenish Missionary Society took over operations in Warmbad in 1867 they did not make any reference to ǁKhauxaǃnas and its population.


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