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__NOTOC__ The Namib-Naukluft National Park is a national park of Namibia encompassing part of the Namib Desert (considered the world's oldest desert) and the Naukluft mountain range. With an overall area of , the Namib-Naukluft is the largest game park in Africa and the fourth largest in the world.〔(Namib Naukluft Park )〕 The most well-known area of the park is Sossusvlei, which is the main visitor attraction in Namibia. A surprising collection of creatures survives in the hyper-arid region, including snakes, geckos, unusual insects, hyenas, gemsboks and jackals. More moisture comes in as a fog off the Atlantic Ocean than falls as rain, with the average 106 millimeters of rainfall per year concentrated in the months of February and April. The winds that bring in the fog are also responsible for creating the park’s towering sand dunes, whose burnt orange color is a sign of their age. The orange color develops over time as iron in the sand is oxidized, like rusty metal; the older the dune, the brighter the color. These dunes are the tallest in the world, in places rising more than 300 meters (almost 1000 feet) above the desert floor. The dunes taper off near the coast, and lagoons, wetlands, and mudflats located along the shore attract hundreds of thousands of birds. ‘Namib’ means open space and the Namib Desert gave its name to form Namibia – “land of open spaces”. The park was established in 1907 when the German Colonial Administration proclaimed the area between the Swakop River and the Kuiseb River a game reserve. The park's present boundaries were established in 1978 by the merging of the Namib Desert Park, the Naukluft Mountain Zebra Park and parts of Diamond Area 1 and some other bits of surrounding government land. The park has some of the most unusual wildlife and nature reserves in the world, and covers an area of . It's an area larger than Switzerland (41,285 km2), roughly the size of the US states New Hampshire and Vermont combined. The region is characterised by high, isolated inselbergs and kopjes (the Afrikaans term for rocky outcrops), made up of dramatic blood red granites, rich in feldspars and sandstone. The easternmost part of the park covers the Naukluft Mountains. Image:Namib-Naukluft-Park-Borders-Sat.jpg|Satellite photo indicating the borders of the Namib-Naukluft National Park and the Namib Rand Nature Reserve File:Stenocara gracilipes.jpg|Namib desert beetle, ''Stenocara gracilipes'' Image:NEO namib-naukluft big.jpeg|High dunes in the Namib desert File:Dead_Vlei_4.jpg|550-year-old dead trees in Dead Vlei Image:Sossusvlei Dune Namib Desert Namibia Luca Galuzzi 2004.JPG|A typical dune in the park File:Namib.jpg|Moon landscape near Swakopmund File:Eupodotis rueppellii (Namib-Naukluft, 2011).jpg|Rüppell's korhaan in the grasslands near the dunes ==See also== *List of national parks of Namibia 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Namib-Naukluft National Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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