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In 1881 Lüderitz established a factory at Lagos in British West Africa, but this enterprise proved unsuccessful.Still interested in setting foot in Africa, he and fellow Bremen merchant Heinrich Vogelsang (1862-1914) decided to found a German colony in South West Africa, then still unclaimed by any colonial power.
It will measure wind speed, solar radiation and barometric pressure for the operation of one of the five largest hydrogen plants in the world. It includes 500 wind turbines and 40 square kilometers of solar panels. The investment equals Namibia's entire gross domestic product. [3] Lüderitz is situated on the B4 national road to Keetmanshoop.
The angel of death has descended violently among them: Concentration camps and prisoners-of-war in Namibia, 1904–08. Leiden: University of Leiden African Studies Centre. ISBN 9054480645. Erichsen, Casper, and David Olusoga. The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism. Faber & Faber, 2010.
German family in Keetmanshoop, 1926. Today, English is the country's sole official language, but about 30,000 Namibians of German descent (around 2% of the country's overall population) and possibly 15,000 black Namibians (many of whom returned from East Germany after Namibian independence) still speak German or Namibian Black German, respectively. [1]
Lüderitz Bay (Afrikaans: Lüderitzbaai; German: Lüderitzbucht), also known as Angra Pequena (Portuguese: [ˈɐ̃ɡɾɐ pɨˈkenɐ], "small cove"), is a bay in the coast of Namibia, Africa. The city of Lüderitz is located at the edge of the bay. [2]
Kolmanskop (Afrikaans for "Coleman's peak", German: Kolmannskuppe) is a ghost town in the Namib in southern Namibia, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) inland from the port town of Lüderitz. It was named after a transport driver named Johnny Coleman who, during a sand storm, abandoned his ox wagon on a small incline opposite the settlement. [ 1 ]
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Halifax Island is a small rocky island about 100 m (330 ft) from the mainland, near Lüderitz in Namibia. It is the third most important breeding site for African penguins in Namibia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]