The architecture of the seaside town of Swakopmund on Namibia's windswept Atlantic coast is distinctly Teutonic, reflecting the country's colonial past as the Protectorate of German South-West Africa from the late 19th century until the end of the Great War. The lighthouse was constructed in 1902, eleven metres high, but its height was almost doubled in 1910. At that time, the larger harbour at Walvis Bay, a short distance to the south, was under British controlPurros