Sherbro Island
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The Sherbro Island (English Sherbro Iceland, also called Bonthe Island ) lies off the coast of West Africa Sierra Leone in the Atlantic. The capital of the island is Bonthe with about 9,700 inhabitants at the eastern end of the island, which is also the capital of the eponymous district Bonthe to the Sherbro island counts.
Management
On the Sherbro Island are two of the eleven chiefdoms of Bonthe District, namely Dema ( capital Tissana ) and Sittia ( capital Yonni ), and the Rural District Bonthe Bonthe with the city.
Geography
The Sherbro Island is separated on the north by the river Sherbro and the east by the Sherbro Strait from the African mainland. It is 52 km long, 18 km wide and has an area of approximately 600 km ². The Cape St. Ann, on the western end, to the east lies the island's main village and port Bonthe. Directly west of the island are the Turtle Islands at a distance of between one and 17 kilometers, almost form the western extension of the island. The island is a nesting site for sea turtles.
Economy
The main economic activities are wet rice farming, fishing and tourism - the island has 105 km of tropical beaches. The Government of Sierra Leone to promote tourism on the Sherbro Island.
History
The original inhabitants of the island are the Sherbro Sherbro - Bullom. Between the rivers Sherbo and Mano (also Mannah ) was until the early 19th century Gallinas or Galinhas territory, a stronghold of the slave trade. Joseph Denman (1810-1874), a captain in the Royal Navy, graduated with King Harry Tucker, the community leaders of the slave transit camp Gallinas, 1840 a treaty that would prohibit the slave trade. As a son of the commune arresting a washing woman from Sierra Leone and British citizen, led Captain Henry Worsley Hill, the eldest son of Rear Admiral Henry Hill of Romsey (1772-1849) with the HM Frigate Saracen a lasting several months naval blockade of Gallinas by. With a landing to the freshwater intake Hill realized that freed the slaves, and had laid in iron the administrator of the slave -factory, Mr. François. Hill suggested that burn the barracoons ( Slave Pens ). 841 slaves were freed, the slave traders were given free passage to Sierra Leone. The Spanish relator Tomas Rodriguez Buron sued Denman in a British court for damages arising out of the occupation of Gallinas. The lawsuit was dismissed in 1848. In the early 19th century, it was a British post on the Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade. After 1815, the former slaves were settled in 1861 took over the colony Freetown the island from the Bullom - Sherbro.