Geography

James Iceland with a surface of approximately 0.35 hectares lies in the North bank division before the district Upper Nuimi. The island is distant approx. 30 kilometers from the in the Atlantic ocean and approx. five kilometers from the village Juffure.

History

The first those the Gambia river in 16. The Portuguese, them drove on, were century called the small island Isla de Andrea (English pc. Andrew's Iceland).

Duke Jakob Kettler from cure country wanted in 17. Century colonies in the southern Karibik on Tobago and at the Gambia river develop, in order to strengthen cure country further economically. In addition it let an address establish on the island in the river, which they called Jakob's island, at strategically favorable position.

From the year 1651 the cure countries used the island on as commercial station, to the duke during Swedish-Polish war (1655-1660) into Swedish shank turned out and thus the short time of the colonialism for end were. The island was transferred in the year 1661 by England. The British use the name James Iceland for the island, in honours of king James II.. They used it first for the gold and ivory trade, later for the slave trade. 1695 were taken away James by the Frenchmen after a battle with British sailors. It was back-conquered 1697 and taken again 1702 by the Frenchmen.

With that Paris peace of 1763 was transferred the rule over the Gambia and thus James Iceland at Great Britain.

World cultural heritage

The island was an important historical place for the westAfrican slave trade and is classified since 2003 than UNESCO Weltkulturerbe. With James Iceland and Related Sites equivalent seven objects were summarized.

On James Iceland was appropriate the fortress away for James, of which today are present only ruins.

See also

• Atlantic slave trade

Literature

• Kunta Kinte, Alex Haleys ancestor, who was described in the book roots (English roots), was probably dispatched over James Iceland.

Related links

• UNESCO side of James Iceland
• beautiful illustration from away James
• http://www.roots-festival.com/

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