Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The centre of Lüderitz' economic activity is the port, until the incorporation of the exclave Walvis Bay in 1994 the only suitable harbour on Namibia's coast. However, the harbour at Lüderitz has a comparatively shallow rock bottom, making it unusable for many modern ships.
Duwisib Castle Museum; Geological Survey Museum; Keetmanshoop Museum; Independence Memorial Museum; National Museum of Namibia; Okahandja Military Museum; Ombalantu baobab tree; Outjo Museum; Swakopmund Museum, founded in 1951 and privately administered by the Scientific Society Swakopmund [1] Trans-Namib Railroad Museum; Tsumeb Museum
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.
Responsibility of the museum was transferred to the South African government of South West Africa in 1957, and the name changed to State Museum. After Namibian independence in 1990, it was administered by the Government of Namibia, and in 1994 the name was changed to National Museum of Namibia. [3]
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 ]
Namibia accepted the convention on April 6, 2000, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. As of 2023, there are two World Heritage Sites in Namibia. As of 2023, there are two World Heritage Sites in Namibia.
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.
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]