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Stone cross at Cape Cross |
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Discover
through the Europeans:
In the year 1486 the first Europeans landed at the
coast of Namibia. The Portuguese Diego Cao set up a stone cross
at his landing-point, the present-day Cape Cross as a sign of
taking possession of the new discovered land through
Portugal. Different hiking movements of African people led to
the settlement of the Ovambo in the north, of the Himba in the Kaokoveld
and the Herero in the middle of the country. Between Nama and
Herero it resulted thereby in embittered tribal wars. In the
19th century numerous missionaries began their activity in
different areas of the country. Walvis Bay was used by European
mariners and in particular by whale catchers as a port and taken
in possession through Great Britain in 1878. At the Skeleton
Coast numerous ships smashed; who had the luck to escape for the
wet element, died of thirst in the desert of Namib, reaching
onto the coast.
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Ship wreck at the
Skeleton Coast |
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