Sandwich Harbour
Former harbour on the Namibian Atlantic coast / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sandwich Harbour (Portuguese: Porto d'Ilhéu), also known as Sandwich Bay, Sandvishawe, Sandvisbaai and Sandfisch Bai is an area on the Atlantic coast of Namibia that includes a bay in the north and a lagoon at the southern end.[2] Sandwich Harbour might have been named after an English whaling ship, the Sandwich, which worked during the 1780s, or the name may be a corruption of the German word "sandfische", a species of shark found in the area.[3] Formerly, the bay was a moderately-sized commercial port based around whaling and small-scale fishing, but it is now best known for its birdlife in the lagoon to the south of the bay.
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Sandwich Harbour | |
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Sandvishawe (Afrikaans) | |
Coordinates | 23°22′S 14°29′E |
Ocean/sea sources | Atlantic Ocean |
Basin countries | Namibia |
Max. length | 4.2 km (2.6 mi) |
Max. width | 4 km (2.5 mi) |
Designated | 23 August 1995 |
Reference no. | 743[1] |
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