‘Ethosha pan in Namibia’

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The Etosha salt pan on the Ekuma River in the Kalahari Basin region of northern Namibia is a 120-kilometre (75-mile) dry lakebed in Etosha National Park. About 16,000 years ago, as the last ice age ended and ice sheets were melting across the northern hemisphere, a wetter climate in southern Africa filled Etosha Lake. Today the Kalahari is an arid desert and Etosha pan rarely covered with even a thin sheet of water. This image was captured by the International Space Station in July 2013. (Nasa, CC BY-NC 2.0)

The Etosha salt pan on the Ekuma River in the Kalahari Basin region of northern Namibia is a 120-kilometre (75-mile) dry lakebed in Etosha National Park. About 16,000 years ago, as the last ice age ended and ice sheets were melting across the northern hemisphere, a wetter climate in southern Africa filled Etosha Lake. Today the Kalahari is an arid desert and Etosha pan rarely covered with even a thin sheet of water. This image was captured by the International Space Station in July 2013. (Nasa, CC BY-NC 2.0)

The Etosha salt pan on the Ekuma River in the Kalahari Basin region of northern Namibia is a 120-kilometre (75-mile) dry lakebed in Etosha National Park. About 16,000 years ago, as the last ice age ended and ice sheets were melting across the northern hemisphere, a wetter climate in southern Africa filled Etosha Lake. Today the Kalahari is an arid desert and Etosha pan rarely covered with even a thin sheet of water. This image was captured by the International Space Station in July 2013. (Nasa, CC BY-NC 2.0)