Cape Cross Seal Colony

 

Cape Cross is a small headland in the South Atlantic in Skeleton Coast, western Namibia.

 

 

 

 

 

 Cape Cross is a Cape Fur Seal Beach with an interesting history of a stone cross on the bleak headland - put up, in 1485, by a Portuguese captain and navigator, Diego Cão.Cape Cross Seal Colony, in Namibia, is the breeding place of the Cape Fur Seals, which are actually a species of Sea Lion. Along the Namibian and South African coast there are 24 colonies with a seal population of about 650 000 animals. About 80 000 to 100 000 seals inhabit Cape Cross.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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