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World Records in Africa

Here we will post the places we visited that are the world's biggest, longest, highest...

Hoba Meteorite: located in Namibia, close to Grootfontein, this meteorite is the world's largest and was discovered by Jacobus Hermanus Brits in 1920. The Hoba meteorite weighs about 55 tonnes and is almost 3 meters long and up to 1 meter thick. According to scientific calculations, the meteorite struck the earth 80,000 years ago. The meteorite consists of approximately 82.4% iron, 16.4% nickel and 0.76% cobalt. Other trace elements contained are carbon, sulphur, chromium, copper, zinc, gallium, germanium and iridium. Scientifically, it is termed an ataxite high in nickel content.

The area surrounding the Hoba Meteorite consists of white calcrete in unconsolidated Kalahari sands. This fills the valley floors between ridges of folded dolomite running east-west. These ridges form the hills of the Otavi mountains to the west of the meteorite. This area forms the edge of the extensive Kalahari plain which stretches towards the east and south-east.


Spitzkoppe Restaurant: this restaurant in the small fishing village of Henties Bay in Namibia has the longest bar in the southern hemisphere. With its 57 meters, only one in Taipee is longer than this bar! When we went there, there was nobody at the bar and only one barman... it surely looked like a very long bar.


Cape Cross: this beach on the coast of Namibia, holds the largest mainland seal colony in the world.