Swakopmund was founded in 1892; it was Germany's first port on the Namibian coast and an early Schutztruppe base.

This species is found from the central Namibian coast to False Bay in South Africa, intertidally to at least 20 m.

A light house was erected to guide ships along the dangerous Namibian coast.

With Ichaboe Island, Mercury is one of the two most important island seabird breeding sites along the Namibian coast.

Moreover, the economy is closely tied to South Africa's, and Namibia's potential deep-sea port, Walvis Bay, remains a South African-controlled enclave cut into the Namibian coast.

Although there was no Portuguese presence this far south, Portugal had claimed the Namibian coast on the basis of earlier discovery.

The seas off the Namibian coast are some of the richest in the world.

But the Penguin Islands remained under South African sovereignty, thus letting it retain an Exclusive Economic Zone off the Namibian coast.

A (re-)transposition of the original latitude and longitude gives a location off the Namibian coast, well within the regular wintering range of the species.

This species is found around the European coast and also the southern African coast, from the Namibian coast to Mozambique, subtidally to 155 m.