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
No public photos have been added yet.