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ANGRA PEQUENA

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 42 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANGRA PEQUENA , a See also:bay in See also:German See also:South-See also:West See also:Africa, in 26° 38' S., 15° E., discovered by See also:Bartholomew See also:Diaz in 1487. F. A. E. Luderitz, of See also:Bremen, established a trading station here in 1883, and his See also:agent concluded See also:treaties with the. neighbouring chiefs, who ceded large tracts of See also:country to the newcomers. On the 24th of See also:April 1884 Luderitz transferred his rights to the German imperial See also:government, and on the following 7th of See also:August a German See also:protectorate over the See also:district was proclaimed. (See AFRICA, § 5, and GERMAN SOUTH-WEST AF.RICA.) Angra Pequena has been renamed by the Germans Luderitz Bay, and the adjacent country is sometimes called Liideritzland. The See also:harbour is poor. At the See also:head of the bay is a shall See also:town, whence a railway, begun in 1906, runs See also:east in the direction of See also:Bechuanaland. The surrounding country for many See also:miles is See also:absolute See also:desert, except after rare but terrible thunderstorms, when the dry See also:bed of the Little See also:Fish See also:river is suddenly filled with a turbulent stream, the See also:water finding its way into the bay. The islands off the See also:coast of Angra Pequena, together with others See also:north and south, were annexed to See also:Great See also:Britain in 1867 and added to Cape See also:Colony in 1874. See also:Seal See also:Island and See also:Penguin Island are in the bay; Ichaboe, See also:Mercury, and Hollam's See also:Bird islands are to the north; See also:Halifax, See also:Long, See also:Possession, See also:Albatross, See also:Pomona, Plumpudding, and Roastbeef islands are to the south.

On these islands are See also:

guano deposits; the most valuable is on Ichaboe Island.

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