Conception Bay (, ) is a bay on the coast of
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...
,
Africa
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.
The bay is exposed, thus not providing a useful anchorage.
Geography
Conception Bay opens to the
Atlantic Ocean
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in the northwest. There is a lagoon at the southern edge of its shoreline. The bay is located in a desolate area. It is part of one of the coastal stretches of Namibia where
diamond
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s are found.
Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Band I, S. 447 ff.
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Shipwrecks
On 30 July 1926 the cargo ship , operating under the flag of the United Kingdom, ran aground in Conception Bay.
See also
* Geography of Namibia
At , Namibia is the world's thirty-fourth largest country. After Mongolia, Namibia is the second least densely populated country in the world (). Namibia got its name from the Namib desert that stretches along the coast of the Atlantic. It ...
* Eduard Bohlen
''Eduard Bohlen'' was a ship that was wrecked on the Skeleton Coast of German Southwest Africa (now Namibia) on 5 September 1909 in a thick fog. The wreck currently lies in the sand from the shoreline.
Service
''Eduard Bohlen'' was a 2,272 Gros ...
References
External links
Karte des Küstengebietes zwischen Hottentottenbucht und EmpfängnisbuchtDeutsch-Südwestafrika: Funkentelegrafie Empfängnisbucht
Bays of Namibia
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