The first civilian shipyard visited by Ernst was called the Baltekum Shipyard. According to the manager, Baltekum is a small town in the East Frisian Islands on the northern coast of Germany, which is also the origin of the shipyard's name.
In East Africa, especially in the east, there are many place names with the suffixes 'gen', 'den', and 'burg', similar to southern Germany, though East Africa's official naming rarely follows this pattern.
However, it's not unheard of. For example, the original Ruvu River served as the border between East Africa and the Portuguese colony of Angola, with many military outposts, hence the numerous places with the 'burg' suffix.
Many names in East Africa are directly copied from Germany, so it's not surprising that the Baltekum Shipyard bears such a name.
