Abbabis is a disused railway station southwest of Karibib in the Erongo Region of western Namibia on the dismantled narrow gauge Swakopmund–Windhoek railway line established in 1900.Martin Wollmann: DSWA Staatsbahn Karte (German).Namibia Railways – SL 61: Passenger Stations & Stops, version of 27 October 2007, §9 State Northern Rly (SNR), p. 2. When this line was converted to from 1910 onwards, it lo longer passed Abbabis.
The etymology of the station is not clear: Either it is from the Khoikhoi language for 'red spot',Peter Edmund Raper: New Dictionary of South African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers, Johannesburg & Cape Town, 2004. or from Nama language abas for 'gourd', as in the case of a farm approximately 300 km (200 miles) further south.Walter Moritz: Aus den alten Tagen in Südwest: Ababis, Erlebnisse eines Albert Voigts (German).
Near to the station was a German convalescent home (Genesungsheim), in which the soldiers of the imperial protection force (Schutztruppen) could recover. A ruin of its office building is still visible on a paddock. The soldiers camped in tents and barracks.Martin Wollmann: Die Staatsbahn Swakopmund-Windhuk, Bahnhof Abbabis, km 165,65 (German, with many historic and modern photos).Erich von Salzmann: Im Kampfe gegen die Herero. Рипол Классик, 1905 (German). The rails have long been lifted. The station building has been extended at its front and rear. It is now used as a private residence. The water supply is still from the old well.
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