West Africa
Sierra Leone
Northern Province

Bunce Island

Bunce Island is an island in the . It is situated in the estuary of the Rokel River and Port Loko Creek, about 20 miles upriver from Sierra Leone's capital city .
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  • Type: Islet
  • Description: island
  • Also known as: “Bance Island” and “Bence Island”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pepel.

Town
is a coastal town in the in the of . is situated 2½ km northwest of Bunce Island.

Bunce Island

Latitude
8.56979° or 8° 34′ 11″ north
Longitude
-13.0402° or 13° 2′ 25″ west
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
Open location code
6CW8HX95+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4160014
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
2566516
Wiki­data ID
Q1004939
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Satellite Map

Discover Bunce Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Bunce Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة بونس”
  • Basque: “Bunce uhartea”
  • Catalan: “Bunce”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Bunce”
  • Cebuano: “Bunce Island”
  • Chinese: “邦斯岛”
  • Dutch: “Bunce Island”
  • Finnish: “Bunce Island”
  • Finnish: “Bunce”
  • Finnish: “Buncen saari”
  • French: “île de Bunce”
  • French: “Île de Bunce”
  • German: “Bunce Island”
  • Hausa: “Tsibirin Bunce”
  • Italian: “Bunce”
  • Italian: “Isola di Bunce”
  • Japanese: “バンス島”
  • Russian: “Банс (остров)”
  • Russian: “Банс”
  • Scots: “Bunce Island”
  • Spanish: “Isla Bunce”
  • Swedish: “Bunce Island”
  • Swedish: “Bunceön”
  • Turkish: “Bunce Adası”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Tumba and Kalangba.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Bunce Island Fortress and Pepel Port.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bunce Island”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.