Hansa Hotel
Hansa Hotel
Swakopmund, Namibia
A hotel built in 1905 in the centre of Swakopmund, the production base. Its own page lists standard rooms, family rooms and suites. Pictured: houses in Swakopmund, 2016.
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Namibia · 2012 · filmed where the rain was not
Mad Max: Fury Road
The film was meant for Broken Hill. Heavy rain turned that desert green, so the production went to the Namib, where under 10 mm falls in a year. Seven places the sources tie to the shoot are waiting under the green.
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Dry it out
Wet enough for flowers, nothing films
Drag the rain down. While the desert is green, the seven places stay covered. When it is dry, open each one to see what the sources say.
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Too green to film: 88 on the rain scale. Lower it to 25 or less.
The film was first meant to follow the earlier films to Broken Hill in New South Wales. Several years of unusually heavy rain turned that desert green, the list says, so a new desert was sought in Namibia.
Wikipedia adds that heavy rain made wildflowers grow around Broken Hill, and that filming moved back to Namibia in November 2011.
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0 of 7 places opened
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Built, not found
The fortress was never here
The location list calls the Citadel wholly invented: its termite-mound-style towers were built as sets at studios in South Africa and Sydney, then extended digitally.
Filming wrapped before the opening and closing Citadel scenes were shot. Pick-ups began on 22 November 2013 at Potts Hill and Penrith Lakes in Western Sydney and ended at Fox Studios Australia in December, Wikipedia says.
Principal photography began in July 2012, mostly in Namibia, and wrapped on 8 December 2012, Wikipedia says.
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Go and see
Ask in Swakopmund first
Only Swakopmund and the Moon Landscape can be pinned. The Rössing Mountains, the Swakop valley, Blanky Flats, the Strathmore dunes and the dunes by Walvis Bay come from a fan location list that gives no exact spots, so they are not pinned. The list says permits are needed in parks and protected areas.
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Where it is now
2 places you can pin near Swakopmund. Four more are named by a fan location list without exact spots.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Area reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working seaside town on the Namibian coast. The list says permits for many nearby protected areas are issued by the tourism ministry’s offices here, so ask before driving out.
Area reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A rocky, folded area east of Swakopmund, signposted from the B2 road to Windhoek. The pin is OpenStreetMap’s Moon Landscape point. Ask about permits in Swakopmund first.
Houses in Swakopmund, 2016. FrankBothe · CC BY-SA 4.0 Swakopmund, Erongo Region, Namibia
Swakopmund
The location list names Swakopmund as the production base.
A working seaside town on the Namibian coast. The list says permits for many nearby protected areas are issued by the tourism ministry’s offices here, so ask before driving out.
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The Moon Landscape in the Namib Desert, a little east of Swakopmund, May 2019 (stitched panorama). Daniel Kraft · CC BY-SA 3.0 Moon Landscape, east of Swakopmund
Moon Landscape
The location list says much of the film was made in this rocky, undulating area east of Swakopmund.
A rocky, folded area east of Swakopmund, signposted from the B2 road to Windhoek. The pin is OpenStreetMap’s Moon Landscape point. Ask about permits in Swakopmund first.
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Stay
A room in the base town.
Swakopmund, where the production was based.
Go there
Ask before you drive out.
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The archive
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
7 of 7 places · 10 of 10 stories
Swakopmund
Swakopmund, Erongo Region, Namibia
The base
Swakopmund is the production base for the desert shoot.
The rain
Heavy rain turns the Broken Hill desert green, so the film moves to the Namib in November 2011.
The Citadel
The Citadel is built as sets in South Africa and Sydney, and its last scenes are shot in Western Sydney in late 2013.
Moon Landscape
Moon Landscape, east of Swakopmund
Much of the film
Much of the film is made in the rocky Moon Landscape east of Swakopmund.
Rössing Mountains
A few miles north of the Moon Landscape
Max is captured
The opening capture sequence is filmed at the Rössing Mountains.
Swakop River valley
The Swakop River, near the Moon Landscape
The canyon
The war-rig passes through the rocky Swakop River canyon.
Blanky Flats
North of Henties Bay on the C34, the Skeleton Coast Road
The armada
Max meets Furiosa’s rig at Blanky Flats, a fight breaks out and the vehicle armada is filmed.
The report
A leaked draft report accuses the producers of damaging parts of the Namib; the Namibia Film Commission disputes it.
Strathmore Mine dunes
Inland from Cape Cross, about 35 miles north of Henties Bay
More dunes
More sequences are shot among the Strathmore Mine dunes.
Dunes by Walvis Bay
Between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund
The Vuvalini
Max and Furiosa meet the Vuvalini in the dunes between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund.