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Namibia / St Helena Island

April 9th 2016
The Namibian coast is subject to heavy fogs due to the interaction of the cold Benguela current from the South and the hot wind off the Namib desert which stretches for over 2000 kilometres to the North of Walvis Bay. It is notorious for the number of shipwrecks - over 1000 - that litter its aptly named Skeleton Coast. It has more than 180 days of thick fog a year which, while a hazard for ship ... read more
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