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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Namib Sand Sea' has mentioned 'Sea' in the following places:
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Southern Namib (between Lxc3xbcderitz and the Kuiseb River) comprises a vast dune sea with some of the tallest and most spectacular dunes of the world, ranging in color from pink to vivid orange. | WIKI |
The complexity and regularity of dune patterns in its dune sea have attracted the attention of geologists for decades, but it remains poorly understood. | WIKI |
The source of the unconsolidated sand (the most recent sand sea) has been shown to be dominantly from the Orange River, which drains into the Atlantic south of the Namib Sand Sea, with minor contributions in the east from the (now ephemeral) rivers that drain into the sand sea. | WIKI |
[8] For this reason the Namib Sand Sea has been referred to as the "wind displaced delta of the Orange River. | WIKI |
Most rivers flow underground and/or are dry for most of the year, and even when they are not, they usually drain into endorheic basins, without reaching the sea. | WIKI |
All along the coast, but mostly in the northernmost part of it, interaction between the water-laden air coming from the sea via southerly winds, some of the strongest of any coastal desert, and the dry air of the desert causes immense fogs and strong currents. | WIKI |
Some of these wrecked ships can be found as much as 50 metres (55 yards) inland, as the desert slowly moves westwards into the sea, reclaiming land over a period of many years. | WIKI |
Warm waters with depth and associated water flows from the northwest were first fully catalogued by Sea Fisheries researchers, Cape Town (L V Shannon et al.). | WIKI |
Welwitschia is notable for its survival in the extremely arid conditions in the Namib, mostly deriving moisture from the coastal sea fogs. | WIKI |
The Namib Sand Sea lies along the arid African coast of the South Atlantic lying wholly within Namibiaxe2x80x99s Namib-Naukluft Park. | UNESCO |
The Namib Sand Sea is a unique coastal fog desert encompassing a diverse array of large, shifting dunes. | UNESCO |
The sand sea includes most known types of dunes together with associated landforms such as inselbergs, pediplains, and playas, formed through aeolian depositional processes. | UNESCO |
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. | UNESCO |
The boundaries of the property encompass all the elements of the Namib Sand Sea that exemplify its Outstanding Universal Values. | UNESCO |
Because of its vast size, difficulty of access and current management within the protected Namib-Naukluft Park (49,768 km2), the Namib Sand Sea is well conserved and in an excellent, undamaged state. | UNESCO |
The Namib Sand Sea has been under conservation management for more than 50 years with well-established management and resource allocation systems, based on regularly revised and updated management plans and long-term budgetary planning. | UNESCO |
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. | UNESCO |