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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Susie Beever

African coast dubbed 'Gates of Hell' home to lions, sharks and more than 1000 shipwrecks

Whatever your picture is of Africa for those who haven't been, this probably isn't it.

Think this week's UK heatwave was tough? Namibia's Skeleton Coast is one of the planet's most desolate spots which Portuguese sailors once dubbed 'the Gates of Hell'.

Lions have been known to hunt down seals along the 500km stretch of coast, which is such an inhospitable environment that civilisation is non-existent.

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