Shark Island (German Haifischinsel) is a small peninsula adjacent to the coastal city of Lüderitz in Namibia. Its area is about 40 hectares. Formerly an island, it became a peninsula from 1906 on by the creation of a wide land connection that doubled its former size.
Now a campsite for tourists, from 1904 to 1907 it was the site of aconcentration camp, created for members of the Herero and Nama tribes inGerman South West Africa
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