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Loango Coast
Loango may refer to: Places * Loango, Republic of Congo, a town in the Republic of the Congo ** Loango slavery harbour is a Republic of the Congo cultural site included in World Heritage Tentative Lists in 2008 * Loango National Park, a national park in Western Gabon * Petit Loango, a town in Gabon * Kingdom of Loango, a pre-colonial state in what is now the Republic of the Congo * Loango, Alabama Other * ''Loango'' (schooner), a schooner wrecked in 1909 Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * Januar ... at St Ives, Cornwall * Loango weaver (''Ploceus subpersonatus''), a species of bird {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loango, Republic Of Congo
Loango is a settlement near the coast of the Republic of the Congo. Location Loango is in the Loandjili (Pointe Noire) District, Kouilou Department, on the coast to the southwest of Diosso. It is a few kilometers north of the city of Pointe-Noire. The town is halfway between Point-Noire and Madingo-Kayes, and since 2002 has been the capital of the Kouilou region. History Diosso was the former capital of the Kingdom of Loango and home to its rulers' mausoleum. Roman Catholic missionaries were active in Diosso, which had a royal palace. The port of Loango was formerly a major slavery port, but the site has now been abandoned and few traces remain. The first radiotelegraph link in the tropics, between Brazzaville and Loango, was created around 1910 using techniques developed by Joseph Bethenod, chief engineer of the Société française radio-électrique (SFR). See also * Loango slavery harbour Loango Slavery Harbour () is a Republic of the Congo cultural site included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loango Slavery Harbour
Loango Slavery Harbour () is a Republic of the Congo cultural site included in World Heritage Tentative Lists in 2008–09. Loango Slavery Harbour is part of the Hinda district, in Kouilou department. This site is limited by: Pointe Indienne to the Southeast, Atlantic Ocean to the South and to the Southwest, to the North-West the village of Matombi and to the northeast the small town of Diosso, the former administrative district of Bwali, capital of the Kingdom of Loango. It is overlooked by the ancient lagoon of Tchibete that the relentless marine erosion has almost completely erased. Herbaceous vegetation is dominated by small-sized trees, with sandy soil influenced by the marine climate. History From 1500 to 1867, the vessels in the Atlantic slave trade moved nearly 12.5 million African slaves from the coast of Africa to the Americas and the Caribbean. File:AMH-7675-NA Map of the Gold Coast.jpg, Gulf of Guinea map - Peter Schenk the Elder (1660 - 1718); Gerard Valck (1652 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loango National Park
Loango National Park is a national park in western Gabon. It protects diverse coastal habitats, including part of the Iguéla Lagoon, the only significant example of a typical western African lagoon system that is protected within a national park. Situated between the Nkomi and Ndogo Lagoons, Loango National Park is considered one of the best spots on Africa's western coast. The naturalist, Mike Fay, called Loango "Africa's Last Eden", and this is where Michael "Nick" Nichols from National Geographic took his well-known pictures of surfing hippopotamuses. Both men call Loango the 'Land of surfing hippos'. The park spans of savanna, beach, forest, and mangroves. Loango National Park offers extensive panoramas and the opportunity to observe elephants, buffalos, hippopotamuses, gorillas and leopards venturing onto the white sand beaches. After South Africa, the world's largest concentration and variety of whales and dolphins can be found right off the Loango coast. The are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petit Loango
Petit Loango is a town located in Ogooué-Maritime province, Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north .... References Populated places in Ogooué-Maritime Province Ramsar sites in Gabon {{Gabon-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Loango
The Kingdom of Loango (also ''Lwããgu'') was a pre-colonial African state, during approximately the 16th to 19th centuries in what is now the western part of the Republic of the Congo, Southern Gabon and Cabinda. Situated to the north of the more powerful Kingdom of Kongo, at its height in the 17th century Loango influence extended from Cape St Catherine in the north to almost the mouth of the Congo River. Loango exported copper to the European market, and was a major producer and exporter of cloth. The English traveller Andrew Battel, when he was there in about 1610, recorded that the predecessor of the unnamed king ruling at that time was named "Gembe" or Gymbe (modernized as ''Njimbe''), possibly the founder of the kingdom. With the death of King Buatu in 1787, the succession of leadership is uncertain. Name The inhabitants, who are a branch of the Bakongo, spoke a northern dialect of the Kikongo language also spoken in the Kingdom of Kongo. Missionaries who visited the Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loango, Alabama
Loango is an unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States. History A post office operated under the name Loango between 1856 and 1907. The maternal great-great-grandparents of Bill Clinton are buried in the Old Loango Cemetery. Name The local explanation for the town name, is that it comes from a combination of the words ''load'', ''and'', and ''go''. A more probable source is the Loango Coast and the port of Loango, Republic of Congo, a major source of slaves before the outlawing of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. (See: Louisiana State Penitentiary The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm"Sutton, Keith "Catfish".Out There: Angola angling. ''ESPN Outdoors''. May 31, 2006. Retrieved on August 25, 2010. ..., also known as Angola.) References Unincorporated communities in Covington County, Alabama Unincorporated communities in Alabama {{CovingtonCoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loango (schooner) (''Ploceus subpersonatus''), a species of bird
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Loango may refer to: Places * Loango, Republic of Congo, a town in the Republic of the Congo **Loango slavery harbour is a Republic of the Congo cultural site included in World Heritage Tentative Lists in 2008 * Loango National Park, a national park in Western Gabon * Petit Loango, a town in Gabon * Kingdom of Loango, a pre-colonial state in what is now the Republic of the Congo * Loango, Alabama Other * ''Loango'' (schooner), a schooner wrecked in 1909 at St Ives, Cornwall * Loango weaver The Loango weaver (''Ploceus subpersonatus'') is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is found in Angola, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Gabon. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Shipwrecks In 1909
List of shipwrecks in 1909 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1909. January 2 January 5 January 6 January 8 January 11 January 12 January 15 January 17 January 19 January 20 January 21 January 22 January 23 January 24 January 25 January 26 January 27 January 28 January 30 January 31 January Unknown date February 1 February 2 February 4 February 5 February 8 February 9 February 10 February 12 February 13 February 14 February 15 February 16 February 17 February 19 February 20 February 21 February 22 February 23 February 24 February 26 February 28 February March 1 March 3 March 4 March 5 March 6 March 8 March 10 March 11 March 12 March 15 March 20 March 21 March 22 March 23 March 24 March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
