The origin of the Etosha Pan as related to the landscape evolution of the Etosha National Park (northern South West Africa/Namibia). The main objective of this publication has been to document the field observations and laboratory results (section 2) obtained by the author. Keywords: Aeolian, Bv-ca-C horizons, Climax soil, Continental planation surface, Ecomorphodynamic, Epeirogenetic, Etosha depression, Fluvial processes, Geomorphic evolution, Great Escarpment, Land forms, Lithologic differences, Morphogeny, Palaeo-soil, Pedogenous calcrete, PIuvial endorheic erosion processes, Radiocarbon chronology, Reliaic soil, Stratigraphic conditions, Super pan.