Etosha National Park, Namibia

Credit: Credit: NASA/Landsat, Posted on: Sunday, 9 November 2003, 06:00 CST Download full size image

Etosha National Park in Namibia was first established in 1907, when Namibia was a German colony known as South West Africa. At the time, the park’s original 100,000 square kilometers (38,500 sq mile) made it the largest game reserve in the world. Due to political changes since its original establishment, the park is somewhat less than a quarter of its original size, but still remains a very large and significant area in which wildlife is protected. The Etosha Pan dominates the park. The salt pan desert is roughly 130 kilometers long and as wide as 50 kilometers in places. The salt pan is usually dry, but fills with water briefly in the summer months, when it attracts pelicans and flamingos in particular.

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