The Central Plateau runs from north to south, bordered by the Skeleton Coast to the northwest, the Namib Desert and its coastal plains to the southwest, the Orange River to the south, and the Kalahari Desert to the east.

Areas within the Namib include the Skeleton Coast and the Kaokoveld in the north and the extensive Namib Sand Sea along the central coast.

It is divided into the northern Skeleton Coast and the southern Diamond Coast.

* November 29 – The Blue Star Line cargo liner runs aground on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia.

The first European to set foot on Namibian soil was the Portuguese Diogo Cão in 1485, who stopped briefly on the Skeleton Coast, and raised a limestone cross there, on his exploratory mission along the west coast of Africa.

In 1793 the Dutch authority in the Cape decided to take control of Walvis bay, since it was the only good deep-water harbour along the Skeleton Coast.

Seal colony at Namibia's Skeleton Coast

While this has proved a major hazard to ships — more than a thousand wrecks litter the Skeleton Coast — it is a vital source of moisture for desert life.

It causes sailors to lose their way ; this is testified by the remnants of a number of shipwrecks that can be found along the Skeleton Coast, in northern Namib.

These included Skeleton Coast ( 1987 ), Gor ( 1987 ) Dragonard ( 1987 ) and its filmed-back-to-back sequel Master Of Dragonard Hill, Hold My Hand I'm Dying ( aka Blind Justice ) ( 1988 ), House Of Usher ( 1988 ), Captive Rage ( 1988 ) and The Revenger ( 1989 ).

Scary Bones the Skeleton meets the Dinosaurs of the Jurassic Coast.

Although sightings of the species are not uncommon off the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, Haviside's Dolphins have not been systematically studied by scientists.

* Skeleton Coast ( 1988 )

* Skeleton Coast

* Survivors of the Skeleton Coast ( 1997 )

The Skeleton Coast is the coastal region between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and Kaokoveld and Damaraland to the east.

One of many rusting ship hulls along the Skeleton Coast.

The Skeleton Coast () is the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean coast of Namibia and south of Angola from the Kunene River south to the Swakop River, although the name is sometimes used to describe the entire Namib Desert coast.

Past human occupation by Strandlopers is shown by shell middens of white mussels found along parts of the Skeleton Coast.

Namibia has declared the 16, 000 km² ( 6, 200 mi² ) Skeleton Coast National Park over much of the area, from the Ugab River to the Kunene.

* Skeleton Coast

* Animals of the Skeleton Coast

* PBS Golden Seals of the Skeleton Coast

The publication in 1944 of the first in-depth study and analysis of Joyce's final text — A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson — tried to prove to a skeptical public that if the hidden key or " Monomyth " could be found, then the book could be read as a novel with characters, plot, and an internal coherence.

She had become well acquainted with the novel during the four and a half year period that her husband collaborated with Henry Morton Robinson to write A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake ( 1944 ).

Cakes and Ale: or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard ( 1930 ) is a novel by British author William Somerset Maugham.

* Jacques Beaupierre, character in the Aaron Elkins novel Skeleton Dance

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Henry Morton Robinson ( September 7, 1898 – January 13, 1961 ) was an American novelist, best known for A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake written with Joseph Campbell and his 1950 novel The Cardinal, which Time magazine reported was " The year's most popular book, fiction or nonfiction.

Movies have even achieved cult status by successfully imitating the awfulnesses of so-bad-it's-good movies ( The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and Amazon Women on the Moon being just two examples ).

Munch's Self-Portrait With Skeleton Arm ( 1895 ) is done with an etching needle-and-ink method also used by Paul Klee.

Self Portrait with Skeleton Arm by Edvard Munch

As a play on the word, Obtainium is an album by Skeleton Key, released in 2002 by Ipecac Recordings.

The first, The Skeleton Dance was entirely drawn and animated by Iwerks, who was also responsible for drawing the majority of cartoons released by Disney in 1928 and 1929.

National competitions are often governed by bodies such as the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation and Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton.

When his brother Burnie returned to Davenport at the end of 1918 after serving stateside during World War I, he brought with him a Victrola phonograph machine and several records, including " Tiger Rag " and " Skeleton Jangle " by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.

It was claimed by Joseph Campbell and Robert Morton Robinson, authors of A Skeleton Key to Finnegan's Wake, that much of the play was the result of unacknowledged borrowing from James Joyce's last work.

Skeleton Crew is the second collection of short fiction by Stephen King, published by Putnam in June 1985.

A milestone in vampire literature was Elizabeth Caroline Grey's The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress ( 1828 ), believed to be the first vampire story published by a woman.

Joseph Campbell, in A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, also believed Earwicker to be the dreamer, but considered the narrative to be the observances of, and a running commentary by, an anonymous pedant on Earwicker's dream in progress, who would interrupt the flow with his own digressions.

Skeleton sleds are steered using torque provided by the head and shoulders.

*" Tiger Rag / Skeleton Jangle " by the Original Dixieland Jass Band

* John Dickson Carr-The Skeleton in the Clock ( as by Carter Dickson )

* Elizabeth Caroline Grey publishes The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress in the penny dreadful The Casket, the first vampire story published by a woman author.

Skeleton and witch masks created by Don Post, worn by Dan Challis's ( Tom Atkins ( actor ) | Tom Atkins ) children.