Things to find in Namibia
4 legends, 1 haunted place, 1 gem & mineral ground on the free Club 49 adventure map
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- Deadvlei Legend
A white clay pan with black dead trees standing on it, ringed by some of the highest dunes in the world, up to 300 to 400 metres, the tallest nicknamed Big Daddy. The Tsauchab river used to flood here and there was enough water...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Kolmanskop Legend
In 1908 a railway worker named Zacharias Lewala picked up a diamond in the sand near Lüderitz and showed it to his supervisor August Stauch, and within a few years there was a German town out here with a hospital, a theatre, a...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Kolmanskop Haunted place
A German diamond-boom town in the Namib desert, abandoned to the dunes. When diamonds were found in the sand here in 1908 a wealthy little town rose complete with ballroom, theatre, hospital and the first X-ray machine in the...
Open it on the map - The Bom Jesus and the Skeleton Coast Legend
This one stopped being a legend in 2008, which is exactly why it belongs here. Miners draining a lagoon in the Sperrgebiet diamond fields near Oranjemund hit timbers, then copper ingots, then a chest of gold coins: the Bom Jesus,...
Open it on the map · Read the story - The fairy circles of the Namib Legend
Bare circular patches in the grass, 2 to 12 metres across, spread in a startlingly regular pattern across arid Namibian grassland, and in 2014 found in the Pilbara in Western Australia too. This is one of the few genuinely open...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Tsumeb Gem & mineral ground
One of the greatest mineral localities in the history of the world. The Tsumeb mine in Namibia, worked for copper and lead, produced the most beautiful specimens ever found of dozens of species, blazing green dioptase, deep-blue...
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