When Nicki Minaj insisted that we ‘go to the beach-each’, this is definitely not what she had in mind.

In the Namibian desert lies an apocalyptic beach graveyard – known as the ‘Gates of Hell’.

From a distance, Namibia’s Skeleton Coast appears to look like a nice, long stretch of sand with a prime view of the ocean.

And the closest mainland city is Swakopmund, a popular beach resort 300 miles south, founded in 1892 as the main harbour for German South West Africa.

However, due to the geographical location, the coastal region experiences more than 180 days of thick fog a year.

This has proved to be a major hazard for ships over the years, as more than one thousand are littered across the Skeleton coast.

That’s why, locally, the beach is dubbed ‘the end of the world’ and is known as a ‘post-apocalyptic wasteland’.

The coast itself is entirely inhospitable and over the years, thousands of washed-out skeletons, broken-down aircraft and abandoned ships, have appeared.

Amongst the ships is the Portuguese Bom Jesus, which washed up during the 1530s.

Another old vessel was known as the Dunedin Star, a British refrigerated cargo liner that was stranded back in 1942.