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<< Our Photo Pages >> Vingerklip - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Namibia

Submitted by pab on Sunday, 27 January 2013  Page Views: 2621

Natural PlacesSite Name: Vingerklip Alternative Name: Rock Finger
Country: Namibia
NOTE: This site is 24.106 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature

Latitude: 20.382849S  Longitude: 15.433888E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Vingerklip
Vingerklip submitted by pab : Vingerklip. May 2012 Site in Namibia (Vote or comment on this photo)
Natural Rock in Namibia

The very impressive natural feature called Rock Finger (Vingerklip in Africaans) stands over 30 metres high. It is probably the most striking structure in the Ugab River valley - an area called the ‘Monument Valley of Namibia’, because of the similarity of much of the area to the famous sites and sights in the US Monument National Park.

The river has cut huge terraces through the area – and local documentation reports that there have been finds dated to ‘Middle Stone Age’ in the various deposits washed down by the river in its occasional flood sequences. I am not sure however how well this period would match to UK interpretation of Middle Stone Age – this after all being considered the cradle of so much human life.

Fuller details of the location and importance of Vingerklip can be found on the Namibian Tourism site: http://www.namibia-1on1.com/vingerklip.html

Site visited May 2012

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Vingerklip
Vingerklip submitted by pab : Vingerklip, with 'models' to give an idea of scale, & also showing the way in which the base is being eroded. May 2012 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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