Bonny (Nigeria)

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Bonny (Nigeria)
Bonny
Bonny
Situation in Nigeria

The state of Rivers with the islands of the Niger Delta

Bonny (formerly Ibani or Ubani ) is a place with a calculated 15,537 inhabitants (as of 2012), according to other information 13,000 inhabitants in Rivers State in southeastern Nigeria . The city is located on Bonny Island in the Niger Delta on the Bonny River , about 10 kilometers from the open ocean (here the Bay of Biafra ).

history

Originally Bonny was an important trading post of the Ijaw and from the 15th to 19th centuries the capital of the Kingdom of Bonny . Bonny was a center of the West African slave trade . When the British forced the abolition of the slave trade in Bonny, the place switched its export products. In the 1850s it was already an important port for the export of palm oil and precious woods . From 1916, its importance as an export port was reduced by the newly established port of Port Harcourt , 56 kilometers upstream .

Bonny Island is a major shipping point for Nigerian oil. The region also gave its name to Bonny Light Oil . Large parts of the oil produced in the surrounding area are transported to Bonny via a pipeline and exported from there.

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  3. ↑ Bonny . Britannica Online Encyclopedia
  4. ↑ Home. ( Memento of the original of July 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Nigeria LNG  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nlng.com

Coordinates: 4 ° 26 '  N , 7 ° 10'  E