Bethanie

Bethanie, village, southern Namibia. Bethanie is situated at the site of a spring in an arid region; the region edges into the extremely arid Namib Desert on the west. It lies at an elevation of 3,773 feet (1,150 metres), 19 miles (31 km) north of a station on the country’s main rail line, 165 miles (265 km) inland from the Atlantic fishing port of Lüderitz. In 1814 Heinrich Schmelen, a missionary of the London Missionary...