| Detailed description: Words on plague: 'Dem ersten Pionier - 1883 - Heinrich Vogelsang |
| Remarks: Photos by Andreas Vogt on behalf of the National Monuments Council, Heinrich Vogelsang was a German explorer doing exploration work in Namibia for Adolf Lüderitz, On April 10, 1883 Heinrich Vogelsang (emissary of Adolf Lüderitz of Bremen) first landed at Angra Pequena. Vogelsang signed a fraudulent lease of land from Joseph Fredericks, Kaptein of the Bethanie community. (Vogelsang used the unit of geographical miles in lieu of ordinary miles, effectively obscuring the true amount of land to be leased.) Angra Pequena was made into a trading station by German trader Adolf Lüderitz in 1883 who subsequently renamed the cove Lüderitz after April 24, 1884, when Chancellor Otto von Bismarck declared that the station and the surrounding area would be henceforth a protectorate under the German Reich. (The act took effect on August 7, 1884.) Bismarck's hasty act was propelled by the belief that Britain was about to claim the area as a protectorate.[1] |
| Date: December 1989 |
| Remarks on Dating: undated |
| Persons on image: Vogelsang, Heinrich |
| Photographer: Andreas Vogt |
| Medium: Image |
| Colour: Col. |
| File format: Electronic image |
| Copyright holder: National Monuments Council |
| Acknowledge: NAN |
| Contributing institution: Namibia University of Science and Technology |
| Custody: NAN |
| Version: 35 mm colour slide |
| Type: Electronic image |
| Source: 35 mm |
| Date digitised: January 2012 |
| WWW Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angra_Pequena |
| Collection name: National Monuments Council |
| Date added: 04-11-2012 |
| Data capturer: RM |
| Metadata entry tool: ISIS |
| Digitisation specs: JPEG for display. Archives TIFF image was scanned at 1200 dpi with Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner. 24 bit colour. 35 mm colour silde |
| File name: NAN_SLI_RNG_img_039715.jpg |