Is it legal to collect at Skeleton Coast, Namibia: Torra Bay to Ugab wreck shore?

Restricted. Namibia: national park entered on permit only, off-road driving banned, nothing may be removed from a park; wrecks and relics over 50 years are protected under the National Heritage Act 2004; the northern wilderness section is concession-only

What can you find at Skeleton Coast, Namibia: Torra Bay to Ugab wreck shore?

wreck iron and timber, whale bone, mining relics, bottles from the diamond camps (all to be left)

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Skeleton Coast, Namibia

Torra Bay to Ugab wreck shore

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Wreck timber

Nails and fittings

Fossils

Also reported: mining relics, bottles from the diamond camps (all to be left).

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS photo (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Shipwreck coast with Dunedin Star (1942), Atlantic Pride near Torra Bay, Seal and Luanda near Toscanini, abandoned diamond workings left in place for their historic interest.

Namibian embassy Skeleton Coast Park fact sheet lists the wrecks, the permit system, stay-on-route rules and mine remains deliberately left as heritageView source →