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Image number: 2361
Feature : salt plain
Grouping : coastal forms
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2009
Locality : Swakopmund coast
Country : Namibia
Region - tribe : Swakopmund coast
Physiographic region : Namib Desert
Notice : The evaporation of Atlantic seawater in Swakopmund, on the boundary of the Namib Desert, forms extensive saltplains. The salt is mined in neighbouring Walvis Bay.
Reference : Vandecasteele, Ine,   2009    Image 2361.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"