Bunce Island

Western Area · Sierra Leone

Bunce Island, Sierra Leone
Photo: From an original watercolor by Joseph Corry, 1805, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
November to April, during the dry season
Budget
$$
Accessibility
not-accessible
Coordinates
Open in maps

The overgrown ruins of a British slave-trading castle stand on this small island in the Sierra Leone River, from which thousands were shipped to the rice plantations of the American South. Boat tours from Freetown explore the haunting fort remains.

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