{"id":16991,"date":"2023-11-15T08:25:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T02:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16991"},"modified":"2025-04-05T01:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:55:18","slug":"walvis-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/walvis-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Walvis Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Walvis Bay<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is strategically located halfway\u00a0down the coast of Namibia, with direct access to principal shipping routes.<\/li>\n<li>This strategic location has made it the gateway port for trade between landlocked African countries and the rest of the world.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from cargo transshipment, Walvis Bay is also known internationally\u00a0for its commercial fishing industry.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is lying along the\u00a0Atlantic Ocean.<\/li>\n<li>The town of Walvis Bay lies on the edge of the Namib Desert at the mouth of the intermittently flowing\u00a0Kuiseb River.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about INS Sumedha<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the third ship of the indigenously\u00a0built Saryu class Naval Offshore Patrol Vessels (NOPV).<\/li>\n<li>It was indigenously designed and built by\u00a0Goa Shipyard Limited.<\/li>\n<li>It was commissioned into the Indian Navy on March 7, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>It is part of the Indian Navy&#8217;s Eastern Fleet, based in Visakhapatnam.<\/li>\n<li>Primary Functions: To undertake EEZ surveillance, anti-piracy patrols, fleet support operations, provide maritime security to offshore assets and carry out escort operations for high-value assets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Where is the Kuiseb River?<\/h3>\n<p>The Kuiseb River is a notable watercourse in Namibia, a country in southwestern Africa. While it&#8217;s called a river, it often behaves more like a seasonal and ephemeral watercourse due to its sporadic flow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/business\/defence-ins-sumedha-fortifies-diplomatic-ties-during-walvis-bay-deployment-3306469\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>INS Sumedha Fortifies Diplomatic Ties during Walvis Bay Deployment<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walvis Bay  is strategically located halfway down the coast of Namibia, with direct access to principal shipping routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}