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Abontjeman

Coordinates: 4°53′35″N 54°57′29″W / 4.89306°N 54.95806°W / 4.89306; -54.95806
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Abontjeman
Former settlement
Abontjeman is located in Suriname
Abontjeman
Abontjeman
Location in Suriname
Coordinates: 4°53′35″N 54°57′29″W / 4.89306°N 54.95806°W / 4.89306; -54.95806
Country Suriname
DistrictBrokopondo
ResortSarakreek
Time zoneUTC-3 (ART)

Abontjeman is an abandoned settlement in Brokopondo District, Suriname.[1] It was located along the Sara Creek,[2] and used to be inhabited by maroons.[3] The village was flooded in 1964 after the construction of the Afobaka Dam.[4]

Abontjeman used to have a train station on the Lawa Railway.[5] In the 1920s, Elwyn Benjamin Fairweather, a bauxite entrepreneur from British Honduras, cleared a 40 kilometres (25 mi) long path from Abontjeman to the Marowijne River with the intention of building of road.[6][7] Fairweather's company ceased to exist in 1943.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Abontjeman, Geographic Names Information System
  2. ^ Acta botanica Neerlandica: official publication of the Nederlandse Botanische Vereniging, Volume 21. Koninklijke Nederlandse Botanische Vereniging, North-Holland Pub. Co. 1972. p. 253.
  3. ^ Benjamins, Herman Daniël; Snelleman, Johannes (1917). Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch West-Indië (in Dutch). Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 709. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  4. ^ "Sranan. Cultuur in Suriname". Digital Library for Dutch Literature (in Dutch). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Koloniale Spoorwegen Dienstregeling". De Surinamer via Delpher (in Dutch). 3 August 1911.
  6. ^ "De afbreek van de spoorweg door de wildernis". Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant (in Dutch). 30 July 1929. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Mr. Fairweather's splendid plans for Surinam". Suriname. 24 March 1925. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  8. ^ Ph.A. Samson (1949). "Een mislukte poging". Nieuwe West-Indische Gids / New West Indian Guide (in Dutch). The Hague: M. Nijhoff: 21.