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For decades in this country, a hermit named “Moose” McGregor baked apple pies beside the C14 highway for travelers who must refuel at the extremely remote settlement of Solitaire. In this country’s north, four populous regions that share a starting letter are informally called the “Four-O” area. This country’s hot spring resort Ai-Ais is near its ultra-wide Fish River Canyon. “Big Daddy” is a (10[2])massive (10[1])orange sand (10[1])dune in this country, (10[2])whose Blanky Flats (10[1])and Moon Landscape were used as filming locations outside Australia for Mad Max: Fury Road. This country’s beach town of Swakopmund (10[5])abuts (10[2])a desert (10[1])from which this (10[1])country (10[1])derived (10[1])its name. Rusted shipwrecks dot (10[1])the Skeleton Coast (10[3])north (10[1])of Walvis Bay in this country, which contains the western edge of the Kalahari Desert. For 10 points, Germany once controlled what southwest (10[1])African country? ■END■

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