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    June 17, 2023

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    The iron jetty has to endure a lot. On some days, the Atlantic surf thunders onto the bridge at 50 t/m². The original jetty was built in 1905 as a wooden structure and was actually supposed to be 640 m long. World War II stopped that. The wooden bridge was quickly eaten away by worms and was completed in 1912 as a steel structure with a length of 262 m. At the end is the Jetty 1905 restaurant.
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    June 11, 2019

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    At the sea is the pier Swakopmunds, called by the locals "Jetty". In 1905, the bridge was built from a wooden structure and replaced by iron in 1911. Meanwhile locked and renovated ...
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    January 12, 2021

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    The old landing stage in Swakopmund, usually called the Jetty, is a former pier (pier) in the South Atlantic in what is now Namibia. It comes from the German colonial days of German South West Africa.
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