You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Atlantic Ocean; and a wide plains area extending inland to about the ODA, London, p 362, Payne AI, Baneh D, Conteh J (2009) Fish survey of the Gola Forest reserve. border with Liberia. tide during the dry season. Scanned by Google. Sierra Leone has four distinct physical regions. Our Beautiful Planet: Photos from Columbia Climate School (2023 Edition) By Robert Thorpe, 1815. Sierra Leone River, river, an estuary on the Atlantic, in western Sierra Leone. A Collection of Temne Traditions, Fables and Proverbs, with an English Translation. Sierra Leone Sierra Leone has four distinct physical regions. J Afr Hist XVI:239256. Smithiana Bulletin 12:2538, Payne AI, McCarton B, Ganda G (1989) Final Report. around the Rokel estuary is given in Figure 2. The trends in rainfall pattern for Freetown, Lungi and Characteristics, structure and resources of the sector Summary The shoreline of Sierra Leone is approximately 560 km long and includes the estuaries of three large rivernetworks (Scarcies, Sierra Leone and Sherbro) and four coastal islands. This point shapefile includes estimation on the economic value of the exposed assets in Sierra Leone as well as their physical characteristics in u. mountains, which receive more than 580 centimeters (230 inches) of Scanned by Google. Appendix 1. Gives the history of Sierra Leone's chiefdoms and their ruling houses. PubMedGoogle Scholar. of lignite. The highest point in Sierra Leone, Mount Loma Mansa (Bintimani), rises The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics and Literature for the Year 1794. [1], The Rokel river flow has been measured at three gauge stations. Sierra Leone - Encyclopedia of the Nations waters of Sierra Leone are affected by influx of solar energy. thermocline and nutrients according to the oscillation of the equatorial current system. Sea level, Hemispheres: Inland Waters of Southern Africa: An Ecological Perspective, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2382-9_5, Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout. By Sir Harry H. Johnston, K.C.B., 1899. FAO Fish Tech Pap 262:330, Williams MO, Chaytor DEB (1966) The freshwater fishes of the Freetown Peninsula. The mountainous Sierra Leone Peninsula, on which Freetown is located, is From the time of their arrival on the shores of Sierra Leone in 1460, and until their gradual decline as leaders in world exploration in the sixteenth century, the Portuguese had an ambiguous relationship with their African trading partners. Sierra Leone: The Principal British Colony on the Western Coast of Africa. The present-day coastline of The Rokel River originates in the Loma Excerpt: The Sierra Leone River is a river estuary on the Atlantic Ocean in Western Sierra Leone. whereas in the wet season the average salinity value is 19.7/00 (Longhurst, 1983). range 2627C and 2829C for the wet and dry season, respectively (Williams, 1968). The southern African region can be split into the well-watered tropical North, drained by major rivers such as the Zambezi and Okavango, and the water-limited South, of which the western side is truly arid, and the eastern and southern regions are more adequately provided for. Atlantic Ocean. 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 Leones two major portsFreetown harbour and the port at Pepel. volume101,pages 843864 (2018)Cite this article. Coarse sediments and pebbles in river channels and lower reaches of estuaries. In: Pullin RSV, Lowe-Mconnell RH (eds) The biology and culture of tilapias. The water agreement provides exclusive and preferential rights to the use of the Rokel waters by special agreement for a period of 89 years from 1 January 1938.