Oranjemund

Oranjemund is a diamond mining metropolis of 4,000 inhabitants located within the Karas Region of the extreme southwest of Namibia, on the northern bank of the Orange River mouth on the border to South Africa. The entire location alongside the shore of the Atlantic Ocean was proclaimed limited in 1908 due to the prevalence of alluvial diamonds. Since then the public was forbidden to go into it. In 1927 diamonds were located south of the Orange River in South Africa. Hans Merensky and different prospectors assumed that the northern shore on South West African territory could additionally have diamonds.

A 12 months later they conducted an day trip from Lüderitz three hundred kilometres to the mouth of the Orange. They discovered rich deposits at the north financial institution of the Orange River and the adjacent northern coastline and hooked up a tent camp from which Oranjemund developed. Due to the Great Depression diamond mining changed into not taken up till 1935, and a 12 months later people' houses have been erected. Oranjemund as a proper settlement become for that reason established in 1936.