The Lüderitz Speed Challenge is an annual speed sailing event, held since 2007 in Lüderitz, Namibia, during the southern hemisphere spring. It is observed...

Keetmanshoop. The town is named after Adolf Lüderitz, founder of the German South West Africa colony. The centre of Lüderitz' economic activity is the port, until...

of Lüderitz is located at the edge of the bay. The bay is indented and complex in structure. It opens to the Atlantic Ocean in the west. Lüderitz town...

the 50 knots barrier with 50.26 knots on 3 October 2008 at the Lüderitz Speed Challenge in Namibia. On 4 October 2008 Frenchman Alex Caizergues, also using...

for the World Sailing Speed Record Council Nautical Mile. In the 2021 Lüderitz Speed Challenge in Namibia he reached a top speed of 55.97 knots. Overall...

Lüderitz is a town in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia. Lüderitz may also refer to: Several places in Namibia have been named after Adolf Lüderitz...

the Lüderitz Speed Challenge in Namibia. On 4 October, Alex Caizergues [fr] (also of France) broke this record with a 50.57 knots run. Similar speeds have...

knots on 3 October 2008 at the Lüderitz Speed Challenge in Namibia. Next, on 14 November 2009, Alex Caizergues achieved a speed of 50.98 knots in Namibia.[citation...

Lüderitz Speed Challenge in Namibia, when the "holy grail" 50-knot barrier of speed sailing was first broken by a kitesurfer. Speed sailing Lüderitz Speed...

knots barrier by reaching 50.26 knots on 3 October 2008 at the Lüderitz Speed Challenge in Namibia. Earlier in the event, on 19 September, American Rob...

Adolf Lüderitz was a fleet tender of the Kriegsmarine, sometimes also known as an aviso. She was named after the Bremen businessman Adolf Lüderitz (1834–1886)...

Another new speed record was set by on October 28, 2010, at the Lüderitz Speed Challenge in Namibia. On that date, in perfect conditions, Douglas was one...

Japanese) Kemper, J. (2017). Creature of the deep - a giant squid strands at Lüderitz. Namibian Environment & Wildlife Society (NEWS) Newsletter no. 4: 1–2....

Christian Bornemann: New German Record 50.20kts, Lüderitz Speed Challenge, retrieved on 1 June 2018 Auf Speed – In: Free Men’s World (Magazin), 9-11/2017,...

course at Luderitz Speed Challenge (Namibia) on 13 November 2012. The previous record holder is Finian Maynard having reached an average speed of 48.70 kn...

Klink was the first person to row across the South Atlantic, leaving from Lüderitz, Namibia on 9 June 1984 and arriving 101 days later in Salvador, Brazil...

Courseracing Champion 1988, Speed World Cup Champion 2009. First man over 50 knots in official timing over 500 metres in Lüderitz 2012. Arnaud de Rosnay (FRA):...

windpowered sailing speed record on 5 March 2008 with 49.09 knots (90.91 km/h or 56.49 mph) on the Saintes Maries de la Mer Speed Canal, beating the previous...

kite surfing, speed kiting as it is easier to train for in the Netherlands and because it has less competitions during a year. In Lüderitz, Namibia she...

German South West Africa on 15 November 1904 (Gregorian), and the local Lüderitz authorities, busy in the Herero and Namaqua genocide, did not object to...

battleships opened fire. On 25 December 1904 while the fleet was sailing between Lüderitz Bay and Nosy Boraha the Kamchatka sent a signal to the Russian battleship...

example, in 1884 Luderitz entered into a deed of purchase with the captain of the impoverished Topnaar people of Walvis Bay, whereby Luderitz acquired the...

2024. Retrieved 2024-07-04. Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert, Eberhard Lüderitz, Hans Uwe Wolf, "Tungsten, Tungsten Alloys, and Tungsten Compounds" in...

164-foot vessel is owned by Gendor Fishing of Walvis Bay, Namibia with Lüderitz as its home port. The Blue Voyage The Turquoise Coast Marinas in Turkey...

Tsingtau in 1934, followed by the Tanga (in 1939), Carl Peters and Adolf Lüderitz in 1940, and finally the Herman von Wissmamm and Gustav Nachtigal. E-boats...

exist via South Africa, although an electrified railway connecting to Lüderitz in Namibia for coal traffic was scheduled to open in 2006.[citation needed]...

River Canyon, across the Namib Desert, and along the Skeleton Coast to Lüderitz had 213 runners from 38 countries start the 7-day, 6-stage race and 167...

steam engines in Germany Wagner, Andreas; Bäzold, Dieter; Zschech, Rainer; Lüderitz, Ralph (1990). Lokomotiven preußischer Eisenbahnen, Schnellzug- und...

areas. The subsystems are divided by an area of permanent upwelling off of Luderitz, which is the strongest upwelling zone in the world. The California Current...

Brussels: SNCB. pp. 223–258. Wagner, Andreas; Bäzold, Dieter; Zschech, Rainer; Lüderitz, Ralph (1990). Lokomotiven preußischer Eisenbahnen, Güterzuglokomotiven...