Shark Island, Namibia
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Shark Island, or Haifisch Island, is a small island off the coastal city of Lüderitz in Namibia which is used as a campsite for tourists.
Haifisch Island was the site of a concentration camp from 1904 to 1907 in which prisoners of the Herero and Nama tribes were worked to death and experimented on.[citation needed] Forced labour from the camp was used to build Lüderitz and local railways. Other camps existed throughout the then German South-West Africa and sites like Swakopmund, Windhoek, and Okahandja. The Herero and Namaka genocide was recognized both by the United Nations and Germany.
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