“Shark Island Handed Over to Heritage Council

“Shark Island will no longer operate as a tourism site, following Cabinet’s approval to transfer management from NWR to the National Heritage Council.

We spoke to NHC director Erica Ndalikokule on what the change means.”

• Listen to the podcast “Shark Island Handed Over to Heritage Council” on the website of Desert Radio (last checked in August 2025).

• See also report “Shark Island: No more tourism” of 29 July 2025 by journalist Jemima Beukes on the Facebook page of “The Whistle Namibia” (last checked in August 2025).

• Watch also the report “Exploring Shark Island” (2:56) of 26 December 2024 by NBC Digital News on YouTube. It is an interview with Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) caretaker Pieter Titus on Shark Island’s history and current tourist numbers [on the campsite, ed.] (last checked in August 2025).

• See also the announcement by the National Heritage Council on Shark Island being declared a Heritage site in the ‘Primary Sources’ section of this website.

• See also the articles “1904 December 9 – Order to erect concentration camps” and “1908 May 28 – Concentration camps officially dissolved” in the ‘Namibia’s Past’ section of this website.