Topo Island is an island located in the Topo town area of Badagry Local Government of Lagos State, in South-west Nigeria. The island was home to the [1] missionaries who built a Chapel, Convent, Teacher training college, cemetery and also a coconut plantation. The island was later abandoned in 1962 when the missionaries left and the locals also left once the plantation could no longer support them.
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Location | Badagry |
Coordinates | 6°24′20″N 2°56′24″E / 6.40556°N 2.94000°E |
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The island is known for coconut plantation,[1][2] tourism attractions, and Catholics[3] pilgrimage to a site where an early missionary cemetery is located.[4]
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- ^ "Lagos and the coconut connection - Nigeria and World News". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 2020-09-02. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ "World Coconut Day celebration holds in Lagos tomorrow - Nigeria and World News". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ "Topo Island revisited". Society of African Missions. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ "Catholic cemetery, where the living, the dead meet". Vanguard News. 2015-11-11. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ "Make Topo-Badagry coconut plantation tourists site — Monarch -". The Eagle Online. 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2022-02-20.