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In the early years another challenge
was the transport of equipment and supplies from Swakopmund
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| these remote diamond towns. During height
of production there were six to seven hundred people in the
area. One of
the unique features of the Treasure Trail is to visit the remains
of these towns which were not accessible for the last 100 years.
With the outbreak of the First World War circumstances changed |
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rapidly. In 1912
an agreement was reached to spend more than
300 000 Deutsch Marks
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constructions of light railways and water pipelines from Meob
Bay to the mine towns.
The purpose of this
was transport of
mining equipment from Conception Bay to the 3 inland towns. The 80 km
pipeline was built to link Conception Bay Water supply with the pipeline
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