Camaloo Corner
Camaloo Corner (another rare spelling: Camalou Corner and Kamaloo , also mockingly referred to as Stink Corner ) is a street intersection in the city of Serekunda in the West African state of Gambia .
At this traffic junction from the Banjul-Serekunda Highway , the Old Cape Road to Bakau forks in a north-westerly direction and 700 meters further along the Banjul-Serekunda Highway, the Sait Matty Road to the west. The Banjul-Serekunda Highway comes from the east from the direction of Banjul and turns here at Camaloo Corner in a south-westerly direction via Kanifing towards the center of Serekunda . The traffic junction is in the mangrove forest Tanbi Wetland Complex , the roads run on dams.
history
The traffic junction is named after the former town of Camaloo . An early Kamaloo and Cape Bridge was built in 1852 and 1854, and they were renewed around 1900. The steel bridge Cape Creek Bridge , built in 1854, is the oldest bridge in the colony. The Old Cape Road opened in 1852.
Individual evidence
- ^ Emma Gregg, Richard Trillo: The Rough Guide to The Gambia Rough Guides Limited, 2006, ISBN 1-84353-703-6
- ↑ a b c Michael Tomkinson: Gambia, a tourist guide Tomkinson 1989, ISBN 978-0905500003
- ^ Britain Colonial Office Great Britain Colonial Office: North American Clonies; African Settlements and St. Helena, Australian Colonies and New Zealand; Eastern Colonies, and the Mediterranean Possessions, & C Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 9781143867415
- ^ Francis Bisset Archer: The Gambia colony and protectorate: an official handbook Routledge, 1967, ISBN 978-0714611396
Coordinates: 13 ° 27 ′ 55.9 ″ N , 16 ° 39 ′ 18.5 ″ W.