A car rusts away in the ghost town of Kolmanskop, outside Lüderitz in the south of _____. The country is the world’s second least densely populated; only _____, largely covered by the Gobi Desert, is emptier of humans. That sparseness still wasn’t enough, though, when the Sperrgebiet was set up in 1908 to guard one of the world’s richest sources of _____. The public continues to be banned from this expanse, whose name means ‘Prohibited Area’ in _____. The language of the former colonisers is spoken by over 20,000 locals, one of the largest communities outside Europe. Many indigenous languages here include consonants with a _____ sound; these are used almost solely in southern Africa, and are often written with symbols such as ! and //.
PHOTOGRAPH: MARK READ
We’ve delved into our archives and pulled out this photo, from a story that first appeared in the August 2011 issue. You’ll find a few gaps in the description: read to the end and then see how many of the blanks you can fill in.