Aukwatowa

Aukwatowa is the Nama name for a bay on the Atlantic coast of Namaqualand, meaning the place where the water carried away the old man. The shore faces the cold waters of the Atlantic, with dunes and dry country stretching inland. Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias marked this coast during his voyage around southern Africa in 1487. Nama communities knew the bay and the surrounding country, whose rocky shore was home to seals.