Aberdeen, Sierra Leone

Aberdeen, Sierra Leone
Aberdeen, Sierra Leone Location in Sierra Leone
Coordinates: 8°30′N13°17′W / 8.500°N 13.283°W / 8.500; -13.283
Country	Sierra Leone
Province	Western Area
District	Western Area Urban District

Aberdeen is a coastal neighborhood in the northwestern part of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown. It is home to numerous up-scale restaurants, hotels, nightclubs and other tourist facilities. Cape Sierra Leone is located at the northwestern end of the Sierra Leone Peninsula in Aberdeen. The white sandy Aberdeen-Lumley Beach stretches all the way from the cape down to neighbouring Lumley, along the western part of the peninsula. ^[1]

History

Aberdeen was founded in 1829 to provide accommodation for recaptives, liberated enslaved Africans, who had been brought to Freetown by the British Royal Navy West Africa Squadron. ^{[2] : 122}

References

1. "National Tourist Board website". Archived from the original on 2006-10-18. Retrieved 2006-11-02.
2. Sanneh, Lamin (2009). Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN   9780674000605. OCLC   42976765.

External links

• Official government tourism website

8°30′N13°17′W / 8.500°N 13.283°W / 8.500; -13.283