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James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: the remains of Fort James, part of which has already been lost to the River Gambia - UNESCO world heritage site - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: the remains of Fort James, part of which has already been lost to the River Gambia - UNESCO world heritage site   James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: British 18h century cannon and the ruins of Fort James - UNESCO world heritage site - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: British 18h century cannon and the ruins of Fort James - UNESCO world heritage site

James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia:  Fort James - baobab and view over the River Gambia - UNESCO world heritage site - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: Fort James - baobab and view over the River Gambia - UNESCO world heritage site   James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: crumbling walls of Fort James, its foundations eroded by the river Gambia - beach with baobab trees - UNESCO world heritage site - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: crumbling walls of Fort James, its foundations eroded by the river Gambia - beach with baobab trees - UNESCO world heritage site
James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: baobabs by the water and crumbling fortress walls, due to river erosion - UNESCO world heritage site - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: baobabs by the water and crumbling fortress walls, due to river erosion - UNESCO world heritage site   James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: baobab by the water - Adansonia digitata and River Gambia - UNESCO world heritage site - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: baobab by the water - Adansonia digitata and River Gambia - UNESCO world heritage site
James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: Fort James' ruined walls and baobabs - UNESCO world heritage site, famous after Alex Haley's book Roots for its role in the triangular slave trade - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: Fort James' ruined walls and baobabs - UNESCO world heritage site, famous after Alex Haley's book "Roots" for its role in the triangular slave trade   James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: the island and the waters of the River Gambia - UNESCO world heritage site - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: the island and the waters of the River Gambia - UNESCO world heritage site
James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: the island seen from the north, with Fort James mostly hidden by baobab trees - UNESCO world heritage site - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: the island seen from the north, with Fort James mostly hidden by baobab trees - UNESCO world heritage site   James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: scale model of Jacob Fort / Fort James, as built by the Latvians from Courland - a UNESCO world heritage site - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: scale model of Jacob Fort / Fort James, as built by the Latvians from Courland - a UNESCO world heritage site
James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: the island seen from the east - ruins of Fort James, pier and baobabs - UNESCO world heritage site - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: the island seen from the east - ruins of Fort James, pier and baobabs - UNESCO world heritage site   James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: Fort James - wall with crenullation, seen from the River Gambia - a UNESCO world heritage site - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: Fort James - wall with crenullation, seen from the River Gambia - a UNESCO world heritage site
James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: baobab trees and the River Gambia on the horizon - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: baobab trees and the River Gambia on the horizon   James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: baobab forest by the river Gambia - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: baobab forest by the river Gambia
James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: colonial cannon aimed at the river Gambia - a UNESCO world heritage site, occupied by the Portuguese in 1456 - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: colonial cannon aimed at the river Gambia - a UNESCO world heritage site, occupied by the Portuguese in 1456   James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: ruins of Fort James with cannon aimed at the river - a UNESCO world heritage site, occupied by the Portuguese in 1456. In 1651 the Duchy of Courland, in modern Latvia, built a fortress - photo by M.Torres James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: ruins of Fort James with cannon aimed at the river - a UNESCO world heritage site, occupied by the Portuguese in 1456. In 1651 the Duchy of Courland, in modern Latvia, built a fortress
Kunta Kinteh Island, formerly called James Island and earlier Santo André island, is an island in the Gambia River, 30 km from the river mouth. The island and some nearby areas are on the UNESCO World Heritage List because of their role in the West African slave trade. In Alex Haley's now descredited  book and TV series Roots, Kunta Kinteh is brought by slave ship from this island to Maryland.

The island was first explored by the Portuguese in the 15th century, who named it Ilha de Santo André after one of their sailors, buried there. The first permanent European settlers on the island were Latvians from the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia. In 1651, the Latvian settlers erected  Jacob Fort after Jacob Kettler, the Duke of Courland, and used it as a trade base. The Dutch briefly held the fort from 1659 until the English captured it in 1661; the Dutch formally ceded the fort to the English in 1664.

The English renamed the island James Island and the fort Fort James after James, the Duke of York, later King James II of England. The chartered Royal Adventurers in Africa Company administered the territory, which initially used it for the gold and ivory trade, and later in the slave trade. In 1695, the French captured Fort James after a battle with English sailors. In 1702, Fort James returned to British control. The fort was destroyed and rebuilt several times in this period, both in conflicts between the English and French and by pirates. On 13 June 1750 the Company of Merchants Trading in Africa assumed the administration of the Gambia. Between 1758 - 1779, the Gambia was part of British Senegambia.  The island was abandoned in 1870.

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