Iles de Los

The Îles de Los lie off the Guinea coast, where the islands of Kassa and Tamara shelter smaller Roume between them. Baga-speaking communities lived on the islands before European traders established themselves there. Their name comes from the Portuguese for islands of the idols. In 1755 Miles Barber set up a trading station on Kassa for the African Company of Liverpool. The station employed pilots and shipwrights as well as taking part in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1818 the ruler Mangé Demba agreed to transfer the islands to Britain in return for an annual payment, bringing the archipelago into the orbit of the British settlement at Sierra Leone.

The later city of Conakry lies here.