February 8, 2010 at 16:55This mysterious Namibia, or boxes in the ocean
The reason for the appearance of this topic was banal curiosity. The other day I was re-reading books on the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 concerning naval battles in the Far East. But since childhood, I love books with pictures, therefore, while reading a literary work (in particular, “Tsushima” by Novikov-Priboy) I used Google Maps to track the route of the 2nd Pacific squadron from St. Petersburg to the site of the future Tsushima battle.
And now, when you come to a place where our sailors made a stop in the bay of Angra Pekvena ( Angra Pequena ), in the west of Namibia, near the town of the German colonial roots Luderitz ( Lüderitz ), opened the card in the appropriate geographic area. As usual, played around with the scale in order to evaluate the surrounding area in more detail, and came across a very unusual object (more precisely, a whole group of objects) of this kind:
Object close-up
View of the general cluster
Exact location on Google Maps
It’s clear that these are some wooden structures in shallow water, perhaps some kind of farm of exotic (edible?) marine organisms, even there is a type of “farmers” house on the shore. But here is what it is concrete - the second day I rack my brains. Maybe someone more aware of this (or similar) place - save, do not let die from curiosity;)
And now, when you come to a place where our sailors made a stop in the bay of Angra Pekvena ( Angra Pequena ), in the west of Namibia, near the town of the German colonial roots Luderitz ( Lüderitz ), opened the card in the appropriate geographic area. As usual, played around with the scale in order to evaluate the surrounding area in more detail, and came across a very unusual object (more precisely, a whole group of objects) of this kind:
Object close-up
View of the general cluster
Exact location on Google Maps
It’s clear that these are some wooden structures in shallow water, perhaps some kind of farm of exotic (edible?) marine organisms, even there is a type of “farmers” house on the shore. But here is what it is concrete - the second day I rack my brains. Maybe someone more aware of this (or similar) place - save, do not let die from curiosity;)