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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.

Why go

Why visit this place?

The island is a place of evidence and remembrance, not spectacle, with continuing connections to descendants across the Atlantic.

Visiting

Getting there

Boat departure, licensed operator, safe landing, guide and conservation protocol remain heritage-authority review gates. No water line is drawn.

Journey

How to reach Bunce Island

Begin with a practical starting point, then follow the route and local knowledge that lead to this Place.

A detailed public Journey to this Place has not been added yet. The visiting notes below may still help with planning.

Where is it?

General_area location

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