page_title: Kaukausib
hierarchical_section_title: Kaukausib
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Quelle Kaukausib (2016) Deutsch: Kaikausib source aerial view (2016)
context_page_description: Kaukausib-River in German called Kaukausib-Mulde is a rivier within the Diamond Restricted Area also called Sperrgebiet in the south of Namibia. The Kaukausib-Rivier extends through the Namib from south to north-north-west. It ends in the Namib Desert without reaching the Atlantic, or any other river. At the upper end of the Kaukausib Rivier there is a spring, which carries water throughout the whole year and is a drinking trough for various animals, especially for Oryx and Ostrich. The Kaukausib-spring is located 62 km southeast of Lüderitz and 40 km east of the Atlantic coast on 375 m above sea level.
  In early days, on the march from Lüderitzbucht to Aus oxen were watered at the Kaukausib-well. The Germans write:
  ... und bald darauf war die Wasserstelle Kaukausib erfüllt von Lärm und Staub, von Gestampf und Ochsengebrüll.
  — Meno Holst, Lüderitz erkämpft Südwest S.118
  In English it means:
  ... and soon the watering place Kaukausib was filled with noise and dust, with stamping and oxen bellowing.
  — Meno Holst, Lüderitz erkämpft Südwest Page:118
context_section_description: Kaukausib-River in German called Kaukausib-Mulde is a rivier (dry river) within the Diamond Restricted Area also called Sperrgebiet in the south of Namibia. The Kaukausib-Rivier extends through the Namib from south to north-north-west. It ends in the Namib Desert without reaching the Atlantic, or any other river. At the upper end of the Kaukausib Rivier there is a spring, which carries water throughout the whole year and is a drinking trough for various animals, especially for Oryx and Ostrich. The Kaukausib-spring is located 62 km southeast of Lüderitz and 40 km east of the Atlantic coast on 375 m above sea level (1235 ft). 
  
  In early days, on the march from Lüderitzbucht to Aus oxen were watered at the Kaukausib-well. The Germans write: 
  ... und bald darauf war die Wasserstelle Kaukausib erfüllt von Lärm und Staub, von Gestampf und Ochsengebrüll.
  — Meno Holst, Lüderitz erkämpft Südwest S.118 (1941)
  In English it means:
  ... and soon the  watering place Kaukausib was filled with noise and dust, with stamping and oxen bellowing.
  — Meno Holst, Lüderitz erkämpft Südwest Page:118 (1941)
  The book Diamonds in the Desert describes, how August Stauch established a company in the beginning of the 20th century called Kaukausibtal Diamantengesellschaft.
caption: Aerial view of Kaukausib source (2016)
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