About Bunce Island

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Bunce Island (also spelled "Bence," "Bense," or "Bance" at different periods) is an island in the Sierra Leone River. It is situated in Freetown Harbour, the estuary of the Rokel River and Port Loko Creek, about 20 miles (32 kilometres) upriver from Sierra Leone's capital city Freetown. The island measures about 1,650 feet (502.9 metres) by 350 feet (106.7 metres) and houses a castle that was built by a British slave-trading company in c.1670. Tens of thousands of Africans were shipped from here to the North American colonies of South Carolina and Georgia to be forced into slavery, and are the ancestors of many African Americans of the United States.

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Port Loko District, Sierra Leone

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Sierra Leone River

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Fourah Bay College

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Western Area Forest Reserve

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Rokel River

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Tiwai Island

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Providence Island

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Paços do Concelho de Bolama

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Our Lady of Grace Cathedral, Bafatá

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Bassari Country

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Fortaleza de São José da Amura

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Bissau Cathedral

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Edifício dos Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones (Bissau)

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National Ethnographic Museum (Guinea-Bissau)

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Presidential Palace, Bissau

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Niokolo-Koba National Park

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Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve

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Forte de Cacheu

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Carabane

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Bao Bolong Wetland Reserve

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Senegambian stone circles

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Kunta Kinteh Island

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San Domingo (Gambia)

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Portuguese Chapel of Albreda

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Gebäude von Maurel Frères

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Tanbi Wetland Complex

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Fort Bullen

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Médine, Mali

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Saloum Delta

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Saloum Delta National Park

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Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bamako

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