Cape Saint Ann

Coordinates: 7°34′N 12°57′W / 7.567°N 12.950°W / 7.567; -12.950

Cape Saint Ann is the northwest extremity of Sherborough Island, Sierra Leone.[1]

From the tip of Saint Ann, the Shoals of Saint Ann extend out some 45 miles to the northwest, according to an 1852 nautical record.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Joseph Thomas; Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) (1859). Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer, Or Geographical Dictionary of the World ... J.B. Lippincott & Company. pp. 368–.
  2. ↑ James Horsburgh (1852). The India Directory: Or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia, and the Interjacent Ports of Africa and South America. William H. Allen & Company. pp. 38–.
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