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Shark Island, Namibia
Shark Island () is a small peninsula adjacent to the coastal city of Lüderitz in Namibia. Its area is about . former island, Formerly an island, it became a peninsula from 1906 on by the creation of a wide land connection that doubled its former size. It had been formerly named Star Island by British Captain Alexander during his 1795 surveying expedition. Concentration camp The island was site of Shark Island concentration camp, Shark Island death camp. It was Namibia's first large-scale death camp. Close to 1,800 Nama prisoners arrived in September 1906, including Cornelius Frederiks, one of the strongest Nama military leaders. Shark Island has been called the "blueprint" for what the Nazism, Nazis would later perpetrate in the The Holocaust, Holocaust during World War II. Long before Adolf Hitler, Hitler or the Nazis, the Germans shipped the Nama people to a remote location, where they performed experiments on the Nama and worked them to death. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Peninsulas
A peninsula ( from ''paene'' "almost" and ''insula'' "island") is a piece of land that is bordered mostly by water but connected to mainland. The surrounding water is usually understood to be continuous, though not necessarily named as such. A peninsula can also be a headland, Cape (geography), cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit (landform), spit. A point is generally considered a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water that is less prominent than a cape. In English, the plural of peninsula is ''peninsulas'' or, less commonly, ''peninsulae''. A river which courses through a very tight meander is also sometimes said to form a "peninsula" within the (almost closed) loop of water. Presented below is a list of peninsulas. Africa Macaronesia * Jandía, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain * Macizo de Anaga, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain * Ponta de São Lourenço, Madeira Island, Portugal North Africa * Cabo Blanco, Africa, Cabo Blanco, Mauritania/Moroc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
