Skeleton Coast - The Land God Made in Anger

The Skeleton Coast is the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean coast of Namibia and south of Angola. The Bushmen of the Namibian interior called the region "The Land God Made in Anger", while Portuguese sailors once referred to it as "The Gates of Hell". The mystery and mightiness of this area is largely due to the dense coastal fog for much of the year, and bones scattered on its beaches. The winds blow from land to sea, rain fall rarely exceeds 10mm annually (.39 inches) and the climate is inhospitable. There is a constant, heavy surf on the beaches.
In the days of human-powered boats, sailors get pushed ashore through the surf and find themselves impossible to launch from the shore. The only way out was by going through a marsh hundreds of miles long through the world's harshest desert. All along the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, in southwestern Africa, you see a vast number of dead ships both ancient and modern. In many cases, all the remains of the vessels now stand far from the sea.
The coast is generally flat, occasionally relieved by rocky outcrops. The southern section consists of gravel plains, while north of Terrace Bay the landscape is dominated by high sand dunes. Evidence of some human occupation, in the form of the Strandloper people in the past, is evidenced by shell middens of white mussels found in portions of the Skeleton Coast. The coast has been the subject of a number of wildlife documentaries, particularly about adaptations to extreme aridity. Many of the plant and insect species of the sand dune systems depend for their moisture on the thick sea fogs which engulf the coast and windblown detritus from the interior as food. The desert bird assemblages have been studied in terms of their thermoregulation, coloration, breeding strategies and nomadism.
The riverbeds further inland are home to baboons, giraffes, lions, black rhinoceros and springbok. The animals get most of their water from wells dug by the baboons or elephants.

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