1802 NAMIBIA - A Himba woman

The Himba (singular: OmuHimba, plural: OvaHimba) is an ethnic group with an population of about 50,000 people, living in northern Namibia, in the Kunene region and on the other side of the Kunene River in  Angola. The OvaHimba are a semi-nomadic, pastoral people, culturally distinguishable from the  Herero people, and speak OtjiHimba (a Herero language dialect), which belongs to the language family of the  Bantu. They are predominantly livestock farmers who breed fat-tailed sheep and goats, but count their wealth in the number of their cattle. They also grow and farm rain-fed crops such as maize and millet.

1776 NAMIBIA - Namib Sand Sea (UNESCO WHS)

Sossusvlei: 1. Sesriem Canyon 2. Dead Vlei 3. Dune 45
4&5. Dead Vlei 6. Big Mama dune.

Namib Sand Sea is the only coastal desert in the world that includes extensive dune fields influenced by fog. It is composed of two dune systems, an ancient semi-consolidated one overlain by a younger active one. It features gravel plains, coastal flats, rocky hills, inselbergs within the sand sea, a coastal lagoon and ephemeral rivers, resulting in a landscape of exceptional beauty. Fog is the primary source of water, accounting for a unique environment in which  endemic invertebrates, reptiles and mammals adapt to an ever-changing variety of microhabitats and ecological niches.

1658 NAMIBIA - Dias Point Lighthouse in Lüderitz

Lüderitz is a harbour town in southwest Namibia, lying on one of the least hospitable coasts in Africa, and developed around Robert Harbour and Shark Island. The town was founded in 1883, when Angra Pequena and some of the surrounding land was purchased on behalf of Adolf Lüderitz, a Hanseat from Bremen in Germany, from a local Nama chief. When Lüderitz didn't return from an expedition to the Orange River in 1886, Angra Pequena was named Lüderitzbucht in his honour. The harbour has a very shallow rock bottom, making it unusable for modern ships.

1615 NAMIBIA - Windhoek

Located in central Namibia, in the Khomas Highland plateau area, Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Namibia. The town developed at the site of a permanent spring known to the indigenous pastoral communities. It developed rapidly after Jonker Afrikaner, Captain of the Orlam settled here in 1840 and built a stone church for his community. However, in the decades thereafter multiple wars and hostilities led to the neglect and destruction of the new settlement such that Windhoek was founded a second time in 1890 by Imperial German army Major Curt von François. Even in 1971, there were roughly 26,000 whites living in Windhoek (among which at least 9,000 individuals were German speakers), outnumbering the black population of 24,000.

1584 NAMIBIA - Swakopmund Lighthouse

Swakopmund (German for "Mouth of the Swakop"), the fourth largest population centre in Namibia, is situated in the Namib desert, on the coast of western Namibia. Founded in 1892 as the main harbour for  German South-West Africa, it is an example of German colonial architecture, and a sizable part of its population is still German-speaking today. Swakopmund Lighthouse (present in the town's coat of arms), located opposite of Municipal gardens, was opened in July 1902, so it is the oldest lighthouse in Namibia. It is still in operation (being integral part of Swakopmund's skyline), guiding ships with its light seen as far as from 35 nautical miles, and also housing a restaurant.

1537 NAMIBIA - Ju/'hoansi bushmen in Eastern Bushmanland

Khoisan is a unifying name for two groups of peoples of Southern Africa, who share physical and putative linguistic characteristics distinct from the Bantu majority of the region. Culturally, they are divided into the foraging San (or Bushmen), and the pastoral Khoi, previously known as Hottentots. The San include the indigenous inhabitants of the region before the southward Bantu migrations from Central and East Africa. Over time, some Khoi abandoned pastoralism and adopted the hunter-gatherer economy of the San, and are now considered San. Similarly, the Bantu Damara people who migrated south abandoned agriculture and adopted the Khoi economy. Large Khoisan populations remained in some arid areas, notably in the Kalahari Desert.