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ANGRA PEQUENA

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 42 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANGRA PEQUENA , a bay in German
South
 -West Africa, in 26 38' S., 15 E., discovered by Bartholomew Diaz in 1487. F. A. E. Luderitz, of Bremen, established a trading station here in 1883, and his agent concluded treaties with the. neighbouring chiefs, who ceded large tracts of country to the newcomers. On the 24th of April 1884 Luderitz transferred his rights to the German imperial government, and on the following 7th of August a German protectorate over the
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 harbour is poor. At the head of the bay is a shall town, whence a railway, begun in 1906, runs
east
  in the direction of
Bechuanaland
 . The surrounding country for many miles is absolute desert, except after rare but terrible thunderstorms, when the dry bed of the Little Fish river is suddenly filled with a turbulent stream, the water finding its way into the bay.
The islands off the
coast
  of
Angra
  Pequena, together with others north and south, were annexed to
Great
  Britain in 1867 and added to Cape Colony in 1874. Seal
Island
  and Penguin
Island
  are in the bay; Ichaboe, Mercury, and Hollam's Bird islands are to the north;
Halifax
 ,
Long
 , Possession, Albatross, Pomona, Plumpudding, and Roastbeef islands are to the south. On these islands are guano deposits; the most valuable is on Ichaboe Island.


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