Farm Aar
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National monument in Namibia 
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| Monument type | paleontology | ||
| location | Out | ||
| Geographic coordinates : | 26 ° 43 '14.4 " S , 16 ° 28' 21.6" E | ||
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| Emergence | ± 600 million years | ||
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Recognized by the National Heritage Council |
September 1, 2011 | ||
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| Sponsorship | Private | ||
| Website | NHC Namibia | ||
In the Farm Aar is a farm in the region ǁKaras Region in Namibia . It is considered to be the most important site of fossils of the Ediacarian (635 million years ago to about 541 million years ago) in Africa. You can also find extensive rock engravings here . The farm has been in the 1 September 2011 list of National Monuments in Namibia added
The farm was also discussed as a location for the international gamma astronomy telescope Cherenkov Telescope Array .
history
The first discoveries in the area were made between 1908 and 1914 by the German geologists Hans Schneiderhöhn and Paul Range under the direction of Georg Gürich . He presented the finds at the end of 1929 at the International Geological Congress in Pretoria , South Africa . One of the fossils was named after the two discoverers, Rangea schroederhoehni . In 1930 Gürich undertook further international investigations on the pteridinia found there .
At the beginning of the First World War , the Schutztruppe operated a shortwave radio station near Aus . An inscription reminding of this "spark station" was found on Farm Aar.
Farm Aar in Namibia (2018)
A fossil found on Farm Aar
A memorial stone found on Farm Aar commemorates the "spark station" from Aus (2015)
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Farm Aar Geo Park - a paleontological treasure house. Namibian Sun, December 6, 2010. Retrieved January 31, 2013
- ↑ From considered for world's largest gamma ray telescope. Tourismus, March 2014, p. 4 ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Gamma-ray Astronomy: Site negotiations for Cherenkov Telescope Array started. CTA, accessed October 7, 2014
- ↑ Reinhard Klein-Arendt: “Kamina calls Nauen!” The radio stations in the German colonies 1904–1918. 3. Edition. Wilhelm Herbst Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-923925-58-1 , p. 285ff.
- ^ The radio system.Retrieved September 14, 2018
