Southern Africa
Namibia
Erongo

Spitzkoppe

The Spitzkoppe is a group of bald granite peaks or inselbergs located between and in the Namib desert of . The granite is more than 120 million years old and the highest outcrop rises about 1,728 metres above sea level.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,629 metres
  • Description: mountain in Namibia
  • Also known as: “Matterhorn of Namibia”, “Pontok Mountains”, and “Spitzkoppe Mountains”

Spitzkoppe

Latitude
-21.8263° or 21° 49′ 35″ south
Longitude
15.1957° or 15° 11′ 45″ east
Elevation
1,629 metres (5,344 feet)
Open location code
5FCQ55FW+F7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 280278046
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Wiki­data ID
Q2124779
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Spitzkoppe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Spitzkoppe”
  • Breton: “Pontok Mountains”
  • Breton: “Spitzkoppe”
  • Chinese: “史匹兹柯普”
  • Chinese: “史匹茲柯普”
  • Czech: “Groot Spitzkop”
  • Czech: “Große Spitzkoppe”
  • Czech: “Pontok Mountains”
  • Czech: “Spitzkop”
  • Czech: “Spitzkopje”
  • Czech: “Spitzkoppe”
  • Czech: “Spitzkuppe”
  • Dutch: “Pontok Mountains”
  • Dutch: “Spitzkoppe”
  • French: “Pontok Mountains”
  • French: “Spitzkoppe”
  • German: “Pontok Mountains”
  • German: “Spitzkoppe”
  • Italian: “Pontok Mountains”
  • Italian: “Spitzkoppe”
  • Ladin: “Spitzkoppe”
  • Lithuanian: “Pontok”
  • Lithuanian: “Špickopė”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Spitzkoppe”
  • Portuguese: “Pontok Mountains”
  • Portuguese: “Spitzkoppe”
  • Russian: “Спицкопп”
  • Slovak: “Spitzkoppe”
  • Spanish: “Pontok Mountains”
  • Spanish: “Spitzkoppe”
  • Venetian: “Spitzkoppe”
  • “Spitzkoppe”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Spitzkoppe”. Photo: Ikiwaner, GFDL.