Etosha National Park
IUCN Category II (National Park)
Map of Africa
Location:	Namibia
Nearest city:	Okaukuejo
Coordinates:	18°56′43″S, 15°53′52″E
Area:	22,270 km²
Established:	June 20, 1975
Visitation:	(in )
Governing body:	Ministry of Environment and Tourism

Etosha National Park in Namibia was first established in 1907, when Namibia was a German colony known as South West Africa. At the time, the park’s original 100,000 km² (38,500 mile²) made it the largest game reserve in the world. Due to political changes since its original establishment, the park is somewhat less than a quarter of its original size, but still remains a very large and significant area in which wildlife is protected. The World Conservation Union or International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is an international organization dedicated to natural resource conservation. ... Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales A national park is a reserve of land, usually owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution. ... Image File history File links Locator_Dot. ... Location map for the Namibia. ... A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. ... Okaukuejo, Namibia Okaukuejo is the administrative center for Etosha National Park in Namibia. ... June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically-distant state. ... South-West Africa is the former name (1884-1990) of Namibia under German (as German South-West Africa, Deutsch Süd-West Afrika) and (from 1915) South African administration when it was conqured from the Germans during World War I. Following the war, the Treaty of Versailles declared the territory...

Zebras at the edge of the Etosha pan

The Etosha Pan dominates the park. The salt pan desert is roughly 130 km long and as wide as 50 km in places. The salt pan is usually dry, but fills with water briefly in the summer months, when it attracts pelicans and flamingos in particular. Periannual springs attract a variety of game and birds throughout the year, including the endangered Black Rhinoceros and the endemic Black Face Impala. Image File history File linksMetadata EtoshaZebra01. ... Image File history File linksMetadata EtoshaZebra01. ... The Etosha pan is a large salt pan in the north of Namibia. ... A salt pan is a geological formation found in deserts. ... Species Pelecanus occidentalis Pelecanus thagus Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Pelecanus onocrotalus Pelecanus crispus Pelecanus rufescens Pelecanus philippensis Pelecanus conspicillatus A pelican is any of several very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under the beak belonging to the bird family Pelecanidae. ... Species Phoenicopterus roseus Phoenicopterus minor Phoenicopterus jamesi Phoenicopterus andinus Phoenicopterus chilensis Phoenicopterus ruber Flamingos (genus Phoenicopterus monotypic in family Phoenicopteridae) are gregarious wading birds, usually 3–5 feet in height, found in both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. ... Binomial name Diceros bicornis Linnaeus, 1758 The Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis; also colloquially, Black Rhino) is a mammal in the order Perissodactyla, native to the eastern and central areas of Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe. ... In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or introduced. ...

In the dry season, winds blowing across the salt pan pick up saline dust and carry it across the country and out over the southern Atlantic. This salt enrichment provides minerals to the soil downwind of the pan on which some wildlife depends, though the salinity also creates challenges to farming and agriculture. The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest ocean, covering approximately one-fifth of the earths its surface. ...

Satellite picture of the Etosha Pan

The Etosha Pan was one of several sites throughout southern Africa in the Southern African Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000). Using satellite, aircraft, and ground-based data from sites such as Etosha, partners in this program collected a wide variety of data on aerosol, land cover, and other characteristics of the land and atmosphere to study and understand the interactions between people and the natural environment. Download high resolution version (600x800, 92 KB)Credits: Data provided by the Landsat 7 Team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Source: http://earthobservatory. ... Download high resolution version (600x800, 92 KB)Credits: Data provided by the Landsat 7 Team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Source: http://earthobservatory. ... A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. ... A satellite is any object that orbits another object (which is known as its primary). ... Airbus A380 An aircraft is any machine capable of atmospheric flight. ... http://visibleearth. ... Layers of Atmosphere (NOAA) Earths atmosphere is a layer of gases surrounding the planet Earth and retained by the Earths gravity. ...

See also

National parks (Namibia) This is a list of national parks in Namibia, Africa. ...

External links

• Ministry of Environment and Tourism page

Original entry was from the NASA Earth Observatory; [1] NASA Earth Observatory is an online publication of NASA where the public can access satellite imagery and scientific information about our planet for free. ...