Walfish Bay
a body of water on the S. W. coast of Africa, in lat. 22° 50' S. It possesses a safe anchorage, but is without fresh water, and its shores are barren and desolate in the extreme.
Fish are very abundant, and it was formerly a favorite whaling ground, whence its name. Valuable deposits of copper and lead exist some distance inland, but are not yet worked. The climate is almost rainless, and is fairly healthy except in the hot months, when low fever prevals. It forms a part of the Cape province of South Africa. a magnificent and WALHALLA, sumptuously decorated Doric octostyle peripteral temple, on the Danube, near Ratisbon; built between 1830-1842, as a national pantheon, consecrated to celebrate Germans of all walks of life. The idea of the erection is derived from the WALKER Walhalla, or Valhalla, the ancient paradise of Odin and the Scandinavian deities.