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  2. Lüderitz - Wikipedia

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    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. [4] Lüderitz is situated on the B4 national road to Keetmanshoop.

  3. Adolf Lüderitz - Wikipedia

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    In 2013 Namibia 's president Hifikepunye Pohamba stated that "I have accepted the [4th Delimitation] Commission's recommendation that Lüderitz Constituency be renamed ǃNamiǂNûs Constituency which was the original name of the area. This includes the current town of Lüderitz".

  4. German fleet tender Adolf Lüderitz - Wikipedia

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    The Adolf Lüderitz was a fleet tender of the Kriegsmarine, sometimes also known as an aviso.She was named after the Bremen businessman Adolf Lüderitz (1834–1886), whose land acquisition in 1883 in what is now Namibia led to the establishment of the German protected area German South West Africa the following year.

  5. Kolmanskop - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Shark Island concentration camp - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Lüderitz Bay - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Shark Island, Namibia - Wikipedia

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    Shark Island (German: Haifischinsel) is a small peninsula adjacent to the coastal city of Lüderitz in Namibia.Its area is about 40 hectares (99 acres). Formerly an island, it became a peninsula from 1906 on by the creation of a wide land connection that doubled its former size.

  9. ǃNamiǂNûs Constituency - Wikipedia

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    ǃNamiǂNûs ([ᵑǃa.mi.ᵑǂũ̀ṹs]; until 2013 Lüderitz) is an electoral constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. It covers an area of 48,271 km 2 (18,638 sq mi) and contains the major town of Lüderitz, after which the constituency was originally named. In 2011, it had a population of 13,859, down from 14,542 in 2001. [1]