Turner's Peninsula is a 110 km-long

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in southern

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, running westwards, parallel to the coast, bounded by the

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. The peninsula was occupied by the

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from 1825 and is inhabited along all of its length.

References

*Peter Tucker ''The Mission Boy from Shebar'' AuthorHouse, Jul 29, 2011 pg. 1 Peninsulas of Sierra Leone {{SierraLeone-geo-stub