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Kunta Kinteh Island

Kunta Kinteh Island, formerly called James Island, is an island in the Gambia River, 30 km from the river mouth. The island and some nearby areas are on the UNESCO World Heritage List because they have important relics of the West African slave trade.
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  • Type: Islet
  • Description: island in Gambia
  • Also known as: “James Islet”, “Saint James Island”, “Sandi Munk Island”, and “St James Island”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Maurel Frères Building and Portuguese Chapel of Albreda.

Museum
Photo: jbdodane, CC BY 2.0.
is a museum.

Ruins
Photo: Tjeerd Wiersma, CC BY 2.0.
The or just Albreda Chapel, also Portuguese Chapel of San Domingo, is the name given to a Catholic chapel built by Portuguese explorers in the fifteenth century in the area of which is now a part of the African country of Gambia.

Ruins
Photo: jbdodane, CC BY 2.0.
is situated 3½ km northwest of Kunta Kinteh Island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Juffureh and Albreda.

Photo: N3ddo!, CC BY 2.0.
is a small town in the Gambia on the North Bank of the Gambia River, most famous as the reputed origin of Alex Haley's ancestor Kunta Kinte, as described in Haley's novel Roots.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
is a historic settlement in The Gambia on the north bank of the Gambia River, variously described as a 'trading post' or a 'slave fort'. It is located near in the and an arch stands on the beach connecting the two places.

Kunta Kinteh Island

Latitude
13.3175° or 13° 19′ 3″ north
Longitude
-16.3614° or 16° 21′ 41″ west
Open location code
7C558J8Q+XC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 151951872
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
2413472
Wiki­data ID
Q213188
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kunta Kinteh Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة جيمس”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة كونتا كينتي”
  • Armenian: “Ջեյմս”
  • Asturian: “Isla Kunta Kinteh”
  • Asturian: “Islla Kunta Kinteh”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kunta Kinteh adası”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Джэймс”
  • Belarusian: “Джэймс”
  • Bulgarian: “Кунта Кинте”
  • Catalan: “illa de Kunta Kinteh”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Kunta Kinteh”
  • Cebuano: “Fort James Island”
  • Chinese: “詹姆斯岛”
  • Chinese: “詹姆斯島”
  • Croatian: “Jamesov otok”
  • Croatian: “Kunta Kinte”
  • Czech: “Kunta Kinteho ostrov”
  • Danish: “James Island”
  • Danish: “Kunta Kinteh Ø”
  • Danish: “Kuntah Kinteh Ø”
  • Dutch: “Fort James”
  • Dutch: “James Island”
  • Dutch: “Kunta Kinteh”
  • Finnish: “James Island”
  • Finnish: “Kunta Kintehin saari”
  • Finnish: “St. Andrews Island”
  • French: “Ile James”
  • French: “île James”
  • French: “Île Kunta Kinteh”
  • Georgian: “ჯეიმსის კუნძული”
  • German: “James Island”
  • German: “Kunta Kinteh Island”
  • Hausa: “Tsibirin Kunta Kinteh”
  • Hebrew: “ג’יימס איילנד”
  • Hebrew: “האי ג’יימס”
  • Hebrew: “קונטה קינטה”
  • Hindi: “जेम्स द्विप”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Kunta Kinteh”
  • Italian: “isola James”
  • Italian: “Isola James”
  • Italian: “Isola Kunta Kinte”
  • Japanese: “クンタ・キンテ島”
  • Korean: “제임스섬”
  • Kotava: “James Ewala”
  • Latvian: “Džeimsa sala”
  • Latvian: “Kuntas Kinteha sala”
  • Latvian: “Svētā Andreja sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Džeimso sala”
  • Macedonian: “Кунта Кинте”
  • Maithili: “जेम्स टापु (गाम्बिया)”
  • Maithili: “जेम्स टापु”
  • Maltese: “Gżira ta‘ Ġakbu”
  • Maltese: “Gżira ta‘ Kunta Kinteh”
  • Maltese: “Gżira ta’ Kunta Kinteh”
  • Maltese: “Gżira ta‘ Sant’Indrija”
  • Maltese: “James Island”
  • Maltese: “St. Andrew’s Island”
  • Nepali: “जेम्स टापु (गाम्बिया)”
  • Nepali: “जेम्स टापु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “James Island”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kunta Kinteh Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “James Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kunta Kinteh-øya”
  • Norwegian: “Kunta Kinteh Island”
  • Persian: “جزیره کونتا کینته”
  • Polish: “Fort Jacques”
  • Polish: “Fort Jakob”
  • Polish: “Fort James”
  • Polish: “Fort Saint-Jacques”
  • Polish: “Fort Świętego Andrzeja”
  • Polish: “Jakob Fort”
  • Polish: “James Island”
  • Polish: “Kunta Kinteh Island”
  • Polish: “St. Andrew Island”
  • Polish: “Wyspa James”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Świętego Andrzeja”
  • Portuguese: “Forte Jacob”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha james e sítios associados”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha James e Sítios Relacionados”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha James”
  • Romanian: “Insula James”
  • Romanian: “James Island”
  • Russian: “Джеймс”
  • Russian: “Кунта-Кинте”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kunta Kinte”
  • Spanish: “Isla James”
  • Spanish: “Isla Kunta Kinteh”
  • Swedish: “Fort James Island”
  • Swedish: “James Island”
  • Swedish: “Kunta Kinteh Island”
  • Swedish: “St. Andrews Island”
  • Tswana: “Setlhaketlhake sa Kunta Kinteh”
  • Turkish: “James Adası”
  • Turkish: “Kunta Kinteh Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Джеймс”
  • Ukrainian: “Кунта-Кінте”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Kunta Kinteh”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Kunta Kinteh Island”. Photo: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0.