Java Hill
The Java Hill is a hill in the city of Elmina in the West African Ghana . The hill lies on the north of the two peninsulas on which today's Elmina extends. Like the rest of the city's hills, Java Hill is also affected by major erosion problems. The reasons for this are the almost complete deforestation of this and other hills as well as the extraction of clay for the construction of ovens for the fish smokehouse. The erosion means that even house foundations are washed away after heavy rainfall.
The former colonial rulers of Elminas, the Dutch , called the hill Cattoenbergh, meaning cotton hill. Its current name Java Hill (on Twi : Yafer Kokoado) did not get the hill until the 19th century when soldiers of the Dutch colonial army , the so-called Belanda Hitam or "Black Dutch", came partly from Elmina, partly from other places in present-day Ghana settled down. These former soldiers were mainly deployed in the Dutch East Indies , today's Indonesia . The most important island in the Dutch East Indies, Java , gave its name to the hill in Elmina. In the 19th century the Dutch built a small hill here , which was later called Fort Java . Today there are no remains of the fortress here, but the Elmina Java Museum , which deals with the "Black Dutch".
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- ↑ http://www.culture-dev.eu/pdf/fr/Elmina2015Strategy.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Elmina 2015 Strategy: Building on the Past to Create a Better Future, see there: 4. Eroding hills and beaches as a result of deforestation and clay winning, taken on November 30, 2013
Coordinates: 5 ° 5 ′ 4 " N , 1 ° 21 ′ 3" W