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Bird Island- Travel Tips
What to See, How to Plan & Tours- Natural Scenery
- 4 Reviews
Bird Island, a man-made wooden platform 10 km north of Walvis Bay along the Swakopmund road, serves as a nesting site for seabirds and a guano harvesting station. Built to support bird populations and produce fertiliser, it yields around 1,000 tonnes of guano annually. The strong scent from the accumulated deposits is a distinctive feature of the site.
Reviews of Bird Island
Davide Delise - 5
Just as Karl Heinrich Adolf Winter finished it in 1937, the pier connecting it to the mainland collapsed decades ago. It can be seen from the coast on the road connecting Swakopmoud and Walvis Bay, there is a car park and a few minutes' walk away, it deserves a very short visit more for its evocative value than its aesthetic one.
Johan Pieters - 1
Josia kambonde Abraham - 2
Christian Sprenger - 4
Bird Island is a 17,000 square meter platform built in 1930 by the German Adolf Winter off the coast of Namibia between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund. It serves as a breeding ground for birds (especially Cape cormorants) and produces guano, which is collected annually and sold as fertilizer.
