Grand Bassa was initially the name Europeans used to identify the piece of land jutting out near the Bassa Cove. That peninsula consisted of rocks and sand near the shore, but extended into the Atlantic Ocean as a quarter-mile long ridge of rocks pointing northwest, which continued further out as a sunken reef known as the Yellow Will. A small section of ocean enclosed between the shore and the peninsula came to be known as the Bassa Cove. Along the shore of the cove sat a village also called Grand Bassa.
Footnote: U. S. Hydrographic Office, The West Coast of Africa, pt. 2. From Sierra Leone to Cape Lopez. Publication No. 47. Translated and compiled by Leonard Chenery [from the French of C. P. de Kerhallet and A. Le Gras]. Washington, DC: Navy Dept. Hydrographic Office, 1875, pp. 65-69; U. S. Hydrographic Office, The West Coast of Africa, pt. 2. From Sierra Leone to Cape Lopez. Publication No. 47. Translated and compiled by Leonard Chenery [from the French of C. P. de Kerhallet and A. Le Gras]. Washington, DC: Navy Dept. Hydrographic Office, 1875, pp. 65-69.
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