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> The town [of Kenema] sits in fertile, hilly country, dotted with small villages, ninety miles southwest of the place where the borders of Sierra Leone, Guinea
by oska 12y ago
> The town [of Kenema] sits in fertile, hilly country, dotted with small villages, ninety miles southwest of the place where the borders of Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia converge in a triskelion. This border area was the cradle of the Ebola outbreak.
I was unfamiliar with the word triskelion in this description. So I looked it up on Wikipedia [1]. Turns out it is an ancient motif or symbol consisting of three interlocking legs or spirals.
So then I checked the border area between these three countries and indeed, it is quite well described as a triskelion although the top border is more like 180 degrees than 120. I have uploaded a cropped Google Map to imgur showing the area [2]. The town of Kenema is in the southwest corner. Guinea is the NE section, Sierra Leone is the western part and Liberia is the SE area.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion
[2] http://imgur.com/cOPx4Ty http://imgur.com/cOPx4Ty