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Description Deutsch (German)
The Etosha Pan
Formation of the Etosha Pan
In the center of Etosha National Park lies a vast salt pan surrounded by grass and thorn savannah, Mopane bushland in the west and dry forest in the northeast.
The pan developed through tectonic plate activity over 10 million years. About 16000 years ago, when ice sheets were melting across the northern hemisphere land masses, a wet climate phase in southern Africa filled Etosha Lake. Today seldom Etosha Pan is seen with even a thin sheet of water covering the salt pan. It is assumed that today's Kunene River fed the lake at that time but over time plate movements caused a change in river direction causing the lake to run dry and leave a salt pan. Now the Ekuma River is the sole source of water. Typically, little river water or sediment reaches the dry lake because water seeps into the riverbed along its 250-kilometers course, reducing discharge along the way. The meager vegetation gives the Etosha its characteristic green colouring. In particularly rainy years the Etosha pan becomes a lake approximately 10 cm in depth and becomes a breeding ground for flamingos, which arrive in thousands.
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18 July 2017 dogesu has locked the cache
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04 May 2010 Mutafo found the geocache
Bizarrer Platz und dieses Jahr sogar noch relativ feucht.
Deswegen war es schwierig Tiere an den Wasserlöchern zu finden.
Bizarre place and and a lot of water in the National Park this year
Difficult to find animals at the waterholes.
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18 October 2008 Justus&Kay found the geocache
Für diesen
herrlichen Tag mussten wir früh aufstehen. Die Tiere warteten an jeder
Wasserstelle auf uns. Dies war ein weiteres Highlight auf unserer
Namibiarundreise. Danke für den Cache und die Logfreigabe. For
this marvellous day we had to get up early. The animals waited in every
watering place for us. This was another highlight on our Namibia tour.
Thank you for the Cache and the log release. Justus&Kay from Germany