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Natural PlacesSite Name: Vingerklip Alternative Name: Rock FingerCountry: Namibia
NOTE: This site is 248.659 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Latitude: 20.382849S Longitude: 15.433888E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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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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