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Colony of some 30,000 Cape Fur Seals on the beach near Cape Fria on Namibia's Skeleton Coast. This is the Northern-most colony of Cape Fur Seals, that have congregated here to take advantage of the abundant fishery that relies on the last big upwelling of the Benguela Current in the Atlantic Ocean. This is one of the most remote sections of the Skeleton Coast, and access here is tightly controlled to protect wildlife and the delicate surface of the thin desert soils.

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Colony of some 30,000 Cape Fur Seals on the beach near Cape Fria on Namibia's Skeleton Coast. This is the Northern-most colony of Cape Fur Seals, that have congregated here to take advantage of the abundant fishery that relies on the last big upwelling of the Benguela Current in the Atlantic Ocean. This is one of the most remote sections of the Skeleton Coast, and access here is tightly controlled to protect wildlife and the delicate surface of the thin desert soils.

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