Called Hoba, it is an iron boulder thought to have landed about 80, 000 years ago, in present-day Namibia.

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And in present day Namibia, frequented as it is by hundreds of thousands of tourists - German and other kinds - there is no standing memorial to the Namibian dead, no plaque at Luderitz, Swakopmund or Shark Island to mark the sites of German concentration camps or the mass graves of those who died.

BBC: African viewpoint: Remembering German crimes in Namibia