- * Shark Island (2)
- Date unknown (station established 1903). Active; focal plane 34
m (111 ft); white, red, or green light depending on direction, 2.5
s on, 7.5 s off. Approx. 15 m (49 ft) square pyramidal skeletal tower
with gallery, painted white. Olga Nesterenko's photo is above right, Lightphotos.net has a closeup, Trabas has Hartmann's photo, and Forand has an amateur radio QSL card showing both lighthouses. Located
a short distance seaward of the historic lighthouse. Site open, tower
closed. Admiralty D5606; NGA 25808.
- * Robert Harbor Range Rear
- Date unknown. Active; focal plane 23 m (75 ft); red flash every 2 s. Approx. 16 m (52 ft) square cylindical skeletal tower carrying a rectangular daymark colored red with a yellow stripe. Trabas has Hartmann's photo, and Google has a satellite view. This is the entrance range for the harbor. The front light is on a similar, shorter tower. Located on the mainland opposite Shark Island. Site open, tower
closed. Admiralty D5607.1; NGA 25796.
Walvis Bay and Swakopmund (Erongo Region) Lighthouses
- The former British/South African enclave of Walvis Bay is Namibia's only deep-water port. The town has a population of about 85,000 and is the terminal of a railway leading to the Namibian capital of Windhoek. In 2019 a Chinese company built a containership port that also has a berth for cruise ships. The name of the bay comes from the German Walfischbucht, "Whale Bay"; Walvis Baai is the Afrikaans equivalent.
Pelican
Point (Walvis Bay) (2)
- 1932 (station established 1916). Active; focal plane 35 m (115 ft); three
white flashes, separated by 3.6 s, every 20 s. 34 m (112 ft) round cast iron
tower with lantern and gallery. Tower painted with black and white horizontal
bands; lantern painted red. An adjacent 3-story building, the former harbor control center, is now the Pelican Point Lodge
. Fog horn (one short blast, two long blasts,
and one short blast every 30 s) located 180 m (200 yd) north. A photo is at right, Carlos Reis has a good 2007
photo, Olga Ernst has a 2014 photo, Trabas has Rainer Arndt's photo, Dieter Dr. Hassler has a 2017 photo, and Google has a good satellite
view. Ordered originally by the government of South Africa for use at Durban in eastern South Africa, the lighthouse was installed instead at Walvis Bay, then under South African administration. It replaced a
post light hastily erected after South African troops recaptured Walvis Bay from German troops during World War I. A powerful light with a range of 40 km (25 mi) was installed in 1961. Pelican Point is a long sandy peninsula sheltering Walvis
Bay, the best naturally protected harbor on the southwest African coast.
The light station was built at the tip of the peninsula but over the past century the spit has extended itself almost 2 km (1.2 mi) farther to the north. The spit is a protected nature reserve and access is limited, but tours to the light station are available from the town's waterfront. Site open, tower closed. . ARLHS NAM-003; Admiralty D5520; NGA 25756.
- Walvis Bay Channel Range Rear
- Date unknown. Active; focal plane 32 m (105 ft); continuous green light. Approx. 27 m (89 ft) square skeletal tower with gallery carrying a white triangular daymark, point down. Trabas has Hartmann's photo, and Google has a satellite view. The front light is mounted on a warehouse. Located in the dockyard at the southern end of Walvis Bay. Site and tower closed, but the tower can be seen easily from Fifth Street. Admiralty D5522.1; NGA 25772.
- ** Swakopmund
- 1903 (extended in 1910). Active; focal plane 35 m (115 ft); two
white flashes, separated by 2.3 s, every 10 s. 28 m (92 ft) round
tower with lantern and double gallery. The upper portion painted with
red and white horizontal bands; the lower portion is unpainted brick with red trim.
The lower 11 m (36 ft) is the original 1902 lighthouse; the upper
section was added in 1910. A 2022 photo is at right, Kevin
Rutterford has a good photo,
Trabas has Hartmann's photo, Hannes Steyn has another lovely photo,
Wikimedia has numerous photos, a fine 2009 photo is available, Ronan Jameson has a street view, and Google has a satellite view. Forand has postcard views of the lighthouse in its original
form (note the hoist-type lamp then in use), after its lantern was installed, and at its present height; Wikipedia has a historic
photo from the colonial history collection of the University of
Frankfurt am Main. The lighthouse replaced a short-lived lighthouse on the town's mole; built in 1902, it was washed away by a storm only months later. The lantern of the present light was installed in 1982 along with a more powerful light having a range of 33 km (20 mi). The town of Swakopmund was founded by the Germans in 1892 as the seaport of their colony,
the better harbor of Walvis Bay being in British hands. It is a port
no longer; today the town, with its turn-of-the-century German architecture,
is a popular seaside resort. The keeper's house includes a small museum devoted to the history of the town and the lighthouse. Namport renovated and repainted the lighthouse in 2016. Located on Dr. Ludwig Koch Street, near
the beach in downtown Swakopmund, about 40 km (25 mi) north of Walvis
Bay. Site and keeper's house open daily, tower closed.
. ARLHS NAM-004; Admiralty D5510; NGA
25752.
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Pelican Point Light, Walvis Bay, March 2023
Instagram photo by Lighthouse Buffs

Swakopmund Light, Swakopmund, December 2022
Instagram photo by suominamibiaseura
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