Swakopmund Gallery

A very old female Welwitschia mirabilis (Miracle Plant) with cones in the hot Namib Desert. Swakopmund, Namibia, Africa

A very old female Welwitschia mirabilis (Miracle Plant) with cones in the hot Namib Desert. Swakopmund, Namibia, Africa. Welwitschia is named after the Austrian botanist and doctor Friedrich Welwitsch who discovered the plant in 1859 in present-day Angola. Welwitschia mirabilis is endemic to the Kaokoveld Centre. The population is distributed southwards from the Bentiaba River in southern Angola, to the Kuiseb River in Namibia. It is called the miracle plant due to the extremely harsh desert conditions it can endure

© Mitchell Krog

General view of Swakopmund, south west Africa

General view of Swakopmund, German south west Africa (now Namibia), including the Lutheran church and the Hansa Hotel, with the sea in the distance. Date: circa 1910

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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Namib desert meets the ocean, Sandwich Harbour, Swakopmund, Namibia, Africa

© Francesco Riccardo Iacomino/ AWL Images Ltd

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