If you know of a place in Ghana through which the Line passes, which is not listed here, please send details to Ghana Place Names.
All locations given below are on the Prime Meridian and may therefore differ slightly from locations given for places in The Database.
✈ The most northerly place that the Line passes through is the border post of Pulimakom, on a road leading to the town of Cinkassé, or Sankase, in Togo. There is some uncertainty in the location of Pulimakom, since the GEOnet Names Server coordinates are on the Togo side of the border. Assuming that the border is marked correctly, it seems likely that Pulimakom is in the vicinity of the formal establishment seen on the satellite image enclosed by a rectangle of trees, as there is no other obvious site for official control of the border. A barrier can also be seen across the road there at the right-angle bend.
✈ These two toponyms are 'positional allonyms' in the GNS list, i.e. they are given the same coordinates, but it is not known if they actually refer to the same settlements. Only Najong No.2 appears in the 2012 Election Polling Station List.
✈ Yendi is the capital town of Yendi Municipal District and the seat of the Yani, the Paramount Chief, King of all Dagboŋ. The Line passes about 400m to the east of Yendi Hospital.
✈ Wulensi is the capital town of Nanumba South District.
✈ The satellite image of this junction on the Dodoikope - Zongo Macheri road is of poor resolution but shows evidence of a few scattered dwellings.
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✈ The district of this unidentified village is determined by its proximity to both Osramanae and Monkra, both of which are listed by the 2012 Election Polling Station List in Krachi West.
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✈ In 2006, Clark Sustainable Resource Developments, a subsidiary of the Canadian company, Triton Logging, was granted a concession of up to 25 years for a timber harvesting operation in the Volta Lake. According to a Ghana News Agency report, "As part of the project, CSR Development has acquired a site at Sedorm, a village along the Volta Lake and about seven kilometres from Akosombo, to build a wood milling and processing factory to serve as a direct source of employment for the people in the locality". The timber, which is estimated to have an economic value of about $3 billion, will come from trees which were submerged when the Lake was formed. The project will have the additional benefits of rendering the Lake safer to fishermen, and of providing an alternative source of timber which does not deplete the rainforests.
✈ At this point, the Line crosses a valley which runs from south-west to north-east, along which flows the River Sapor, joining the Volta Lake at an inlet to the west of the Akosombo Dam. The US army map NB30-8 shows four places named after the river at intervals along the valley, all of them to the west of this location, but the satellite image shows that these settlements have expanded to form an almost continuous line which now extends east of the Prime Meridian.
✈ This third linear settlement, just south of Tortibo, merges with the latter a little to the north-east, a small ridge separating the two up to this point.
✈ The Line just passes through a suburb of Krobo Odumase, the administrative capital of Lower Manya Krobo. As the traditional centre of the Krobo people, the town hosts the annual harvest festival, Ngmayemi (ngma = food; yemi = eating), held in October/November, which celebrates the bringing in of the millet crop. The town is also noted for Cedi Beads Industry, a family-run business making Krobo powder-glass beads.
✈ Afienya is a town on the Akosombo road about 20 km north of Tema.
✈ Tema is the largest of Ghana's two seaports and lies about 24 km east of the the capital, Accra, to which it is connected by Ghana's first motorway. The city has major industries, including an oil refinery, and the VALCO aluminium smelter. The latter was built in conjunction with Akosombo Dam as part of an agreement between Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's Government, and the American company, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation. Tema is appropriately twinned with Greenwich, London.