Place
Bunce Island
Culture / history
Sierra Leone River, Northern Province, Sierra Leone
Bunce Island holds the ruins of a British slave-trading fort active from the late seventeenth into the early nineteenth century.
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Why visit this place?
The island is a place of evidence and remembrance, not spectacle, with continuing connections to descendants across the Atlantic.
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Getting there
Boat departure, licensed operator, safe landing, guide and conservation protocol remain heritage-authority review gates. No water line is drawn.
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