Conception Bay (Namibia) Explained

Conception Bay
Pushpin Map:Namibia
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Namibia
Pushpin Label Position:left
Coords:-23.9167°N 44°W
Oceans:Atlantic Ocean
Countries:Namibia
Cities:None

Conception Bay (Afrikaans: Conceptionbaai, German: Empfängnisbucht)[1] is a bay on the coast of Namibia, Africa.[2] The bay is exposed, thus not providing a useful anchorage.

Geography

Conception Bay opens to the Atlantic Ocean in the northwest. There is a lagoon at the southern edge of its shoreline. The bay is located in a desolate area. It is part of one of the coastal stretches of Namibia where diamonds are found.[3]

Shipwrecks

On 30 July 1926 the, a cargo ship under the flag of the United Kingdom, ran aground in Conception Bay.[4] [5] She broke up over the following weeks and was a complete wreck by early September.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/Bildprojekt/Lexikon/php/suche_db.php?suchname=Empf%E4ngnisbucht Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Band I, S. 562
  2. Web site: Conception Bay. Mapcarta. 13 November 2016.
  3. http://www.ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/Bildprojekt/Lexikon/php/suche_db.php?suchname=Diamanten Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Band I, S. 447 ff.
  4. Casualty reports . 31 July 1926 . 8 . 44338 . G .
  5. Union-Castle liner ashore . 31 July 1926 . 20 . 44338 . C .
  6. Casualty reports . 4 September 1926 . 17 . 44368 . G .