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Lüderitz

American  
[loo-der-its] / ˈlu dər ɪts /

noun

  1. a seaport in SW Namibia: diamond-mining center.


Lüderitz British  
/ ˈlyːdərɪts /

noun

  1. a port in Namibia: diamond-mining centre. Pop (admin. constituency): 13 276 (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Local activist Luciel Adams also warns that the project should be respectful of a rocky peninsula near Lüderitz that was once the site of the Shark Island concentration camp.

From BBC Mar. 11, 2026

"So now finally, we're on the map," says Philip Balhoa about Lüderitz, a town in southern Namibia, where harsh desert meets pale ocean.

From BBC Dec. 27, 2021

Two years ago, Douglas rode a five-foot fiberglass board, powered by a 96-square-foot kite, down a man-made channel in Lüderitz, Namibia, and hit a speed of 55.65 knots, or 64.04 miles per hour.

From New York Times Nov. 23, 2012

While the previous concessionaire at Wolf/Atlas Bay had shut down his operation, new concessionaires are busy building a seal-processing plant at Lüderitz and may resume sealing before the end of this harvest season.

From National Geographic

Angra Pequena has been renamed by the Germans Lüderitz Bay, and the adjacent country is sometimes called Lüderitzland.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various

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