Several islands, including Tasso Island (the largest), Tombo Island, and the historically important Bunce Island, are located in the estuary.[2]. Includes initial contacts by Carthage, Portugal and Britain. A coastal swamp region that runs parallel to the Atlantic coast for around 320 km and comprises of a flat . Updates? Great Scarcies River (Kolent River) Little Scarcies River (Kaba River) Mabole River; Mongo River; Lolo River; Sierra Leone River. Muse royal de L'Afrique central-Tervuren-Belgique-Annales-Serie in-8-sciences Zoologiques-no. In South Africa, there are substantial groundwater reserves of freshwater, but precise estimates of recharge rates are uncertain, and so, therefore, is the renewable resource value of groundwater. Scanned by Google. Guinea Current (GC) which runs along the West African coast from Senegal to the Bight of Includes several references to Sierra Leone, including the death of Prince Naimbonna (sic. 402 kilometers (250 miles), Territorial sea limits: Mangrove swamps line much of the coast, span the northeastern part of the country. The area of the continental shelf up to * List of rivers of Sierra Leone; B. Bankasoka River; J. Jong River; K. Kolent River; L. Little Scarcies River; M. Mano River; Moa River; R. https://www.britannica.com/place/Sierra-Leone-River, Food And Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations - Sierra Leone. Zool., IXL, Trewavas E (1983) Tilapiine fishes of the genera Sarotherodon, Oreochromis and Danakilia. The cichlids in Barombi Mbo probably evolved there from two or three ancestral populations and now show clear ecological separation in their feeding and breeding, and the problem of speciation within the lake is of particular interest. The ecology, distribution and diversity of fish species in Sierra Leone Recounts the story of Bai Bureh on p. 15-16 and mentions Sierra Leone on p. 260. Historic photos of Sierra Leone from the United Nations Photo Library. Scanned by Google. There are no well-known named caves or canyons in Sierra Leone. University of Tel Aviv Press, Tel Aviv, pp 534543, Payne AI, Arthur RI (2010) Sugar to ethanol project: fisheries impact assessment. MSC theisis, Coventry Polytechnic, UK, p 209, Henderson HF, Welcomme RL (1974) The relationship of yield to morpho-edaphic index and numbers of fishermen in African inland fisheries. Scanned by Google. estuaries whose river channels, like that of the Sierra Leone River, Published in 1899. The thermocline and the continental shelf are delimited by the 25C isothermal and 40-m Published in 1788. (1990) which was somewhat extended and refined from taxonomic . Gallinas and Sulima Rivers and the currents of these two rivers have formed a sand the hydrographic conditions. Sierra Leone Maps & Facts - World Atlas Tervuren ORSTOM, Paris, p 520, Daget J, Gosse JP, Thys van den Audenaerd DFE (1986b) CLOFFA 3. Scanned by Google. This river is tidal and during the Go to top. Sierra Leone has no territories or dependencies. PhD Dissertation, CNAA, Coventry Polytechnic, UK, p 402, Moriarty DJW (1973) The physiology of digestion of blue-green algae in the cichlid fish Tilapia nilotica. The Sierra Leone River Estuary regularly accommodates important populations of wintering birds of global significance such as Ringed and Kentish Plovers, Sanderlings and Curlew Sandpipers. The coast is very irregular, forming many bays, inlets, and peninsulas. Written by Sen Farren, and published in 2011 by the Sierra Leone Irish Partnership. clays in quiet waters outside the estuary, and this is then overlain by silty sand and Formed by Port Loko Creek and the Rokel River, it is from 4 to 10 miles (6 to 16 km) wide and 25 miles (40 km) long and contains Sierra Leone's two major portsFreetown harbour and the port at Pepel. Sierra Leone River, river, an estuary on the Atlantic, in western Sierra Leone. The 200year history of deforestation across Sierra Leone is outlined but the much more extensive impacts on the western and central river basins compared to the more protected forests in the east does not appear to have been reflected in major impacts on species distribution. The main daily maximum and minimum of Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth, and Resources in Sierra By Tobias George Smollett, 1788. silty clays at the mouth of the estuary (Strasser-King, 1979). IFAN 28(Ser A (3)):10411063, MRAG, 18 Queen Street, London, W1J 5PN, UK, You can also search for this author in Excerpt: The Sierra Leone River is a river estuary on the Atlantic Ocean in Western Sierra Leone. The highest point in Sierra Leone, Mount Loma Mansa (Bintimani), rises with occasional thin beds of argillaceous limestone and calcareous grit and, also, seems Two Voyages to Sierra Leone during the years 1791-2-3. This represents 16.4% of the annual exploitable surface runoff from rivers. Ser. Smallholder tobacco growing along the Rokel River has been successfully developed. Sierra Leone. Scanned by Google. known as the Grain Coast, which borders Liberia. climate; temperatures stay fairly constant throughout the year. barrier 810 km long between the open sea and coast, thus forming a long narrow lagoon. sector between Senegal and Liberia and this has biological consequences on fisheries of [15], The flora in the estuary consists of mangrove forest. Within and between river differences were analysed and a high degree of statistical similarity was found between the species composition of the major rivers. Flag. Checklist of freshwater fishes of Africa Vol 3, MRAC, Tervuren ORSTOM, Paris: pp 273, Daget J, Gosse JP, Thys van den Audenaerd DFE (1991) CLOFFA 4. The provinces are Eastern, Northern, North Western, and Southern. From page 927 copies of treaties ceding various Sierra Leonean territory and islands to Britain. [8], John MacCormac, an Irish businessman, settled on Timbo Island in 1816 and started exporting African Oak from the Rokel River. Wadstrom, 1794. It is formed by the Bankasoka River and Rokel River and is between 4 and 10 miles wide (616km) and 25 miles (40km) long.