Bird Island
Bird Island is a man-made platform off the coast of Namibia between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund. It serves as a breeding ground for birds and yields guano, which is collected and sold, as a highly effective fertilizer.Photo: John Zwinck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Rock
- Description: man-made platform off the coast of Namibia between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund, serving as a breeding ground for birds for collecting guano
- Also known as: “Bird Rock” and “Winter’s Folly”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kuisebmond and Walvis Bay.
Kuisebmond
Suburb
Kuisebmond is a township of Walvis Bay, Namibia, named after the Kuiseb River. With a population of 40,000, most residents of Walvis Bay live in the area. Kuisebmond is situated 6 km south of Bird Island.
Walvis Bay
Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Walvis Bay is a city of 62,000 on Namibia's Atlantic coast. It has the country's only commercial port. It is famous as a place to see large numbers of flamingoes and rare migratory birds.
Bird Island
- Categories: artificial island, breeding ground, and landform
- Location: Erongo, Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Bird Island” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Bird Island”
- Esperanto: “Birdinsulo”
- Fulah: “Laddaandi Nardal (Namibya)”
- Fulah: “Laddaandi Nardal”
- German: “Bird Island”
- Spanish: “Isla de los Pajaros”
- Spanish: “Isla de los Pájaros”
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