Lüderitz Bay
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Lüderitz Bay (Portuguese: Andra Pequena), named after the Hamburg merchant-trader, Hans Lüderitz, was the principal German port of German South-West Africa. It is today in Namibia. In 1935 its population was circa 2000.[1]
It was claimed for Germany as early as 1811 and became part of the new German colony in 1883. Following World War I South-West Africa was taken from Germany under the iniquitous Treaty of Versailles and awarded to the Union of South Africa as a League of Nations mandate. Lüderitz Bay was one of the coastal termini on the extensive railways built by the Germans which linked the capital, Windhoek, to the north, and also South Africa.
Lüderitz is twinned with 
Lüderitz in Germany, part of the town of Tangerhütte since 2010.[2]
Sources
- ↑ Odhams Press, The New Pictorial Atlas of the World with Gazetteer, London, 1935, p.265.
- ↑ Altmark-Ort Lüderitz knüpft Freundschaftsband nach Namibia (de).
