There are quite a number of mountains in the territory, including the Anas Range, a little to the south of Windhoek, which has peaks up to 8,148 feet ; Omataka, in the north, 8,790 feet ; the Gansberg, 7,662 feet, in Great Namaqualand ; the Khomas High- lands, near Windhoek, 6,000 feet; the Onyati, 7,198 feet; the Chankaib, near Luderitz, 3,520 feet ; and Geitsi Gubib, the great extinct volcano near Berseba. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Hayes via" <south-africa@rootsweb.com> To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Omataka > On 22 Mar 2015 at 11:08, Pat Frykberg via wrote: > >> Can any one tell me about this please. It's a word that lies in my memory >> of >> Namibia in the 1930s. Again from memory with no facts, it is associated >> with a >> family who arrived at Neuras in a wagon and outspanned for the night. >> Sort >> of gypsies? . In my memory are the words "omataka boers" Love some real >> info. >> thanks Patricia Frykberg (aka Pat) > > I seem to recall an Omuramba Omatako that was a kind of dry watercourse > used by taders and hunters to travel north-east from central Namibia to > the Okavango. And it became the Shoshongo Dum somewhere along its course. > It starts near two distinct concical hills called Omatako, which can be > seen from the road to Otjiwarongo. I'd look up something i once wrote > about it, but my web browser is taking forever to load, so I'll send this > off and come back to it when it's loaded. > > 10 minutes later > > http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com/2013/03/where-on-earth-is-shoshongo-dum.html > or > http://tinyurl.com/l7oal2y > > and > > https://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/from-shakawe-to-maun-via-lake-ngami/ > or > http://tinyurl.com/l4qgko7 > > > > > -- > Steve Hayes > E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk > Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com > Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm > Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 > Fax: 086-548-2525 > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message