Bight of Benin

The Bight of Benin is a bay in West Africa. It extends for about 640 km between the Cape St. Paul to the west and the now - discharge of the Niger to the east, where the Bay of Bonny (formerly Bight of Biafra ) is connected. The bay is part of the Gulf of Guinea.

Your name has the bay from the historic kingdom of Benin. She is known for dangerous waves and long standing with the Atlantic slave trade in conjunction. For these times comes - in several variants - the rhyme "Beware, beware the Bight of Benin: One comes out, where fifty went in! ". The author Philip McCutchan used this verse as a book title.

Between 1852 and 1861 there was a British protectorate Bight of Benin.

Today's residents of the bay are Benin, Togo and Nigeria.