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Cape Coast Castle
Dating to 1482, the imposing St George’s Castle
in Elmina is the oldest European building in the sub-Saharan
Africa. Though greatly expanded under Dutch occupation,
the original Portuguese fortress and chapel are still
intact and now function as a local history museum.
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Gold Mines
Gold has been exported from Ghana since mediaeval times,
when it reached North Africa via the Sahara. After the
establishment of a maritime trade with the Portuguese
in 1471, Ghana supplied up to 10% of the gold imported
to Europe. Since the 1990s, a resurgent mining industry
has let to Ghana becoming Africa’s second largest
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The
Volta River
The mighty Volta River, which empties into the Atlantic
along Ghana’s east coast, has a catchment area
that sprawls across the borders of six West African
countries. It also feeds the world’s largest artificial
water body, the 850,000ha Lake Volta, created in 1966
by the construction of a 370m wide, 124m tall dam at
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