CULTURETECHLENSGorée Island
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Combined Graph record U-01400 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-PL-0075. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
The Island of Gorée is an island of 28 hectares lying 3.5 km off the coast from Dakar, Senegal (State Party per UNESCO Decision 2 COM VIII.38, https://whc.Unesco.org/en/decisions/2127/), inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1978; UNESCO states that from the 15th to the 19th century it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast, that it held over a dozen slave houses, and that it is now a pilgrimage destination for the African diaspora (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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The Island of Gorée is an island of 28 hectares lying 3.5 km off the coast from Dakar, Senegal (State Party per UNESCO Decision 2 COM VIII.38, https://whc.Unesco.org/en/decisions/2127/), inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1978; UNESCO states that from the 15th to the 19th century it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast, that it held over a dozen slave houses, and that it is now a pilgrimage destination for the African diaspora (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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- Also known as: Île de Gorée
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- https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/26 (verification source · master store)
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The Island of Gorée is an island of 28 hectares lying 3.5 km off the coast from Dakar, Senegal (State Party per UNESCO Decision 2 COM VIII.38, https://whc.Unesco.org/en/decisions/2127/), inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1978; UNESCO states that from the 15th to the 19th century it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast, that it held over a dozen slave houses, and that it is now a pilgrimage destination for the African diaspora (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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