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Gold Coast
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What does Gold Coast mean?
proper noun
- A city and local government area in southeastern Queensland, Australia.
More meanings (6)
proper noun
- (historical) A former colony of Portugal in West Africa comprising its trading outposts along the Gold Coast.
- (historical) A former colony of the Netherlands in West Africa comprising its trading outposts along the Gold Coast.
- (historical) A former colony of Sweden in West Africa comprising its trading outposts along the Gold Coast.
- (historical) A former colony of Denmark in West Africa comprising its trading outposts along the Gold Coast.
- (historical) A former colony of Brandenburg and Prussia in West Africa comprising their trading outposts along the Gold Coast.
- (historical) A former colony of the United Kingdom in West Africa comprising its trading outposts along the Gold Coast and its further northern conquests, now the independent state of Ghana.
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Burton's thoughts, however, were then completely occupied with the Gold Coast, consequently the whole project of collaboration fell through.
On the Gold Coast, the dog is used and prized as an article of food.
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ELLIS, A. B.: The Tshi-speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa.
Amongst the Tshi-speaking tribes of the Gold Coast in West Africa the Horse-mackerel family traces its descent from a real horse-mackerel whom an ancestor of theirs once took to wife.
England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this private sea; but no bark from them has ventured out of sight of land, though it is without doubt the direct way to India.