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Namib Sand Sea
['Unesco World Heritage Centre']
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Brief SynthesisThe Namib Sand Sea lies along the arid African coast of the South Atlantic lying wholly within Namibia’s Namib-Naukluft Park.
The Namib Sand Sea is a unique coastal fog desert encompassing a diverse array of large, shifting dunes.
Life in the fog-bathed coastal dunes of the Namib Sand Sea is characterised by very rare behavioural, morphological and physiological adaptations that have evolved throughout its specialist communities.
IntegrityThe boundaries of the property encompass all the elements of the Namib Sand Sea that exemplify its Outstanding Universal Values.
There is potential for serial extension of the Namib Sand Sea beyond the Namib-Naukluft Park and beyond national borders to include other significant dune systems within other protected areas of the larger Namib Desert.