ANGRA PEQUENA  , a bay in German South-West Africa, in 26° 38' S., 15° E., discovered by Bartholomew Diaz in 1487 . F . A . E . Luderitz, of Bremen, established a trading station here in 1883, and his agent concluded treaties with the. neighbouring chiefs, who ceded large tracts of country to the newcomers . On the 24th of April 1884 Luderitz transferred his rights to the German imperial government, and on the following 7th of August a German protectorate over the district was proclaimed . (See AFRICA, § 5, and GERMAN SOUTH-WEST AF.RICA.) Angra Pequena has been renamed by the Germans Luderitz Bay, and the adjacent country is sometimes called Liideritzland . The harbour is poor . At the head of the bay is a shall town, whence a railway, begun in 1906, runs east in the direction of Bechuanaland . The surrounding country for many miles is absolute desert, except after rare but terrible thunderstorms, when the dry bed of the Little Fish river is suddenly filled with a turbulent stream, the water finding its way into the bay . The islands off the coast of Angra Pequena, together with others north and south, were annexed to Great Britain in 1867 and added to Cape Colony in 1874 . Seal Island and Penguin Island are in the bay; Ichaboe, Mercury, and Hollam's Bird islands are to the north; Halifax, Long, Possession, Albatross, Pomona, Plumpudding, and Roastbeef islands are to the south .

On these islands are

guano deposits; the most valuable is on Ichaboe Island .