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There are 800 km (497 mi) of waterways in Sierra Leone, of which 600 km (373 mi) are navigable year-round. Major port cities are Bonthe, Freetown, Sherbro Island and Pepel. There are ten regional airports in Sierra Leone, and one international airport.
Pepel is connected by a 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge 84 km long railway to an iron ore mine at Marampa. It is proposed to introduce a more efficient balloon loop at the port. [2] An extension of this line to a deeper port at Tagrin Point is also proposed.
[4] [5] The estuary, after it joins the Bankasoka River, is also called the Sierra Leone River, is 25 mi (40 km) in length and has a width of 4–10 miles (6.4–16.1 km). Freetown and Pepel are the two ports located on the shores of the estuary. [6] As the estuary widens and joins the Atlantic its width is about 11 km (6.8 mi).
Sierra Leone. Province. Northern Province. Elevation. 243 ft (74 m) Time zone. UTC-5 (GMT) Marampa Mines is the site of an hematite iron ore mine based in the town of Lunsar, Port Loko District, Sierra Leone [1].
There are 800 km (497 mi) of waterways in Sierra Leone, of which 600 km (373 mi) are navigable year-round. Major ports of Sierra Leone include: Bonthe , Freetown and Pepel . Queen Elizabeth II Quay in Freetown represents the country's only deep water port facility capable of berthing large-hulled cargo or military vessels.
Tagrin Point. Coordinates: 08°32′00″N 13°08′00″W. Tagrin Point is the proposed location of a deep water port to replace the older and shallower port of Port Pepel in Sierra Leone. It would be connected to existing and new iron ore mined by an upgraded railway line converted to standard gauge.
Tonkolili District is home to the largest sugar factory in Sierra Leone, and one of the largest sugar factories in West Africa, that is located in the town of Magbass. Tonkolili District had a population of 530,776. [1] The district occupies a total area of 7,003 km 2 (2,704 sq mi) and comprises eleven chiefdoms.
Cotton Tree station, Freetown (1915) Magburaka station. (government 762 mm ( 2 ft 6 in) line) Freetown in 1896. Wellington (7 miles) by March 1897. Waterloo April 1898.