Conception Bay
Conceptionbaai (Afrikaans)
Conception Bay is located in Namibia
Conception Bay
Conception Bay
Location in Namibia
Coordinates23°55′S 14°30′E / 23.917°S 14.500°E / -23.917; 14.500
Ocean/sea sourcesAtlantic Ocean
Basin countriesNamibia
SettlementsNone

Conception Bay (Afrikaans: Conceptionbaai, German: Empfängnisbucht)[1] is a bay on the coast of Namibia, Africa.[2] The bay is exposed, thus not providing a useful anchorage.

Geography

Conception Bay opens to the Atlantic Ocean in the northwest. There is a lagoon at the southern edge of its shoreline. The bay is located in a desolate area. It is part of one of the coastal stretches of Namibia where diamonds are found.[3]

Shipwrecks

On 30 July 1926 the SS Cawdor Castle, a cargo ship under the flag of the United Kingdom, ran aground in Conception Bay.[4][5] She broke up over the following weeks and was a complete wreck by early September.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Band I, S. 562
  2. ↑ "Conception Bay". Mapcarta. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  3. ↑ Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Band I, S. 447 ff.
  4. ↑ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 44338. London. 31 July 1926. col G, p. 8.
  5. ↑ "Union-Castle liner ashore". The Times. No. 44338. London. 31 July 1926. col C, p. 20.
  6. ↑ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 44368. London. 4 September 1926. col G, p. 17.


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