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Travel, Gondwana Collection Namibia, science, Stamps and Stories, Gondwana Park, brandberg mountain, nature, transportation, Fish River Canyon, plants, north-western Namibia, Museum of Natural History, gladiator, National Museum in Namibia, Mantophasmatodea, Oliver Zompro, heelwalker, Martin Wittneben, insects namibia, Gondwana Cañon Park
April, 2 2012 in
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Gladiator - Predatory Insect creates a new Order
At the start of this millennium Namibia caused worldwide headlines when biologists found...
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Travel, Stamps and Stories, vacation, Nama, Gondwana Collection, gondwana, Uncategorized, Stories & History, south west africa, herero, politics, Sam Nujoma, herero clash, namibia independence march 21, European colonial powers, freedom struggle, Table Mountain, namibia independence, swapo, Gariep/Orange River, Adolf Lüderitz
March, 14 2012 in
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Independence - More than 300 Years of Resistance
January 1677. At the tip of Africa, where a supply station has been established at the...
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Travel, Gondwana Collection Namibia, Stamps and Stories, National Museum of Namibia, Uncategorized, environment, Kwando River, AaWambo, transportation, makalani palm, VaKavango, West-Caprivi, East caprivi, Zambezi River, black Bushmen, Luyi-Balozi, Khwe, collecting bags, Hambukushu area of Kavango, Nyemba, bantu-speaking, Bantu-speaking People, Kavango area, HaMbukushu, Pópò-baskets, Professor Dr Oswin Köhler, oámà-baskets
March, 8 2012 in
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Traditional Basketry - The /oámà-baskets of the Khwe
A large variety of basketry has always formed part of the material culture of the...
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Travel, Gondwana Collection Namibia, Stamps and Stories, jackal, vacation, africa, Gondwana Collection, gondwana, animals, Personalised Stamps, nature, Fish River Canyon, Poll, leopard, Panthera pardus, master of camouflage and stealth, genus panthera, rudyard kipling, hyena, dangerous, how the leopard got his spots, African folklore, master of camouflage, leopards favourite food, last common ancestor, wild cats
March, 7 2012 in
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Leopard: How it got its Spots & other Secrets
According to African folklore , Leopard stopped sharing his meals and started to hide...
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Travel, Gondwana Collection Namibia, Stamps and Stories, vacation, Nature Conservation, southern namibia, outdoors, africa, Gondwana Park, gondwana, Uncategorized, gondwana canyon park, Personalised Stamps, nature, Keetmanshoop, orange river, Fish River Canyon, Poll, giant snake, south america, sheep and goats, nama ledend, bethanien, warambad, Hiker’s Point, ais ais, super continent gondwana, ai ais richtersfeld transfontier park, nama karoo, south africans, wilderness, ai ais spa, second largest canyon on earth
March, 7 2012 in
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Fish River Canyon - Traces of a Death Struggle
Once upon a time a giant snake dwelled in southern Namibia. Every so often it devoured...
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Gondwana Collection Namibia, Stamps and Stories, headdresses, gondwana, initiation ceremony, Ovamboland, omutyuula-tree, Ximenia caffra, missionaries, iron products, palm leaf, omulenda, Ngandjera and Kwaluudhi, southern OvaWambo, ox sinews, oshipeke-tree, rhodesian teak, Kwaluudhi girls, onyangha, ground particles
February, 16 2012 in
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Ngandjera - the oshikoma and iipando Headdress
For centuries the Ngandjera and Kwaluudhi have occupied the western regions of the area...
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Gondwana Collection Namibia, Stamps and Stories, africa, namib desert lodge, namib desert, Gondwana Namib Park, ostrich, fossilised dunes of the Namib, petrified sand dunes, animal fossils, Solitaire, sandstone layers, Tsondab sandstone, desert conditions, desert lodge, fossils, Drakensberg Mountains, Namib Desert Lodge
February, 15 2012 in
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Fossilised Dunes - Ostrich Family Tree embedded in Sandstone
How does one know that the Namib is the oldest desert on earth? And that the ostrich...
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Gondwana Collection Namibia, Stamps and Stories, gondwana, Uncategorized, Plains zebra, mountain zebra, Poll, zebra stripes, african legends, lion, big cats, animal kingdom, predators, leopard, herd animals, hyaena and wild dog, IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, cheetah, equus zebra, Burchell’s (or plains) zebra Equus burchellii, African continent, mares and foals
January, 25 2012 in
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Zebra - Pyjamas and other Theories
White stripes on black or black stripes on white? Although our perceptions may differ, we...
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Gondwana Collection Namibia, light boats, Stamps and Stories, deepwater harbour, spruce timber, imperial germany, Walfish Bay harbour, south western part of africa, british hands, gondwana, Personalised Stamps, mole, railway wagons, carola kronsbein-goldbeck, walvis bay, city of swakopmund, jetty, stamps and stories
January, 11 2012 in
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The Jetty: Oyster Bar instead of Harbour Cranes
Swimming in the bay at the breakwater (Mole), standing on the jetty and marvelling at the...
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Stamps and Stories, Nature Conservation, Gondwana Collection, gondwana, Uncategorized, Poll, big cats, leopard, luiperd, habitats from rainforest to desert, Panthera pardus, IUCN, leopard killing a crocodile
January, 10 2012 in
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The Leopard - Prince of Stealth
Beauty and power blend seamlessly in Panthera pardus, an animal that seems to have been...
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Gondwana Collection Namibia, Stamps and Stories, Uncategorized, namib desert, walvis bay, lieutenant edmund troost, edmund troost, martin luther, locomotive
December, 22 2011 in
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Martin Luther - Heavy duty vehicle with staying power
When you pass 'Martin Luther' just outside Swakopmund and have heard the story of the...
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Stamps and Stories, Gondwana Collection, Uncategorized, Personalised Stamps, Stories & History, gondwana stamps and stories, finger of god, henties bay, mukorob, national monument, nama ledgend, gonwana, wilfried haacke, small Mûgorob
December, 19 2011 in
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Mûgorob - Symbol for Supremacy
The massive sandstone pillar which until 7 December 1988 pointed to the sky like a...
