Though the coastal Namib Desert begins in the southwest of Angola, and creeps into South Africa, the largest stretch of the Namib makes up the coastline of Namibia. Parts of the Namib rise in steep elevation, while the northern portion is often shrouded in thick fog rolling off the Atlantic. The fog over the region called the Skeleton Coast is responsible for numerous shipwrecks, but the moisture it brings into the harsh desert landscape is crucial to the flora and fauna that thrive here.
Is that a face in the sand?
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Polar bear season in Manitoba
-
Jazzed for Mardi Gras
-
Giants of the avian world
-
Yellowstone for the National Park Services birthday
-
Marine Corps War Memorial, Arlington, Virginia
-
The eloquence of elephants
-
A splash by the sea
-
World Meteorological Day
-
Golden larches and Prusik Peak, the Enchantments, Washington
-
Farmers Day
-
Happy New Year!
-
A monastery in the mountain
-
World Elephant Day
-
Happy Mother s Day
-
Terraced rice fields, Yuanyang County, China
-
American Wetlands Month
-
Lake Tai s cherry trees in bloom
-
Waiting for winter
-
A glimpse of the Blue Forest
-
National Library Week
-
National Frog Month
-
Golling Waterfall, Salzburg, Austria
-
A whale of a hug
-
They’re grrrape!
-
World Numbat Day
-
A ‘circus of chaos’ for Stravinsky
-
Mountain mists over Bavaria
-
The forecast calls for blooms
-
Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
-
Happy Halloween!
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

