Aapravasi Ghat in Port Louis
From 1849 to 1923, half a million Indian indentured labourers passed through this Port Louis immigration depot on their way to plantations across the British Empire. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site in 2006.
Key facts
Before you go.
- Starting point
- Port Louis, on the east side of Trou Fanfaron bayAapravasi Ghat (Wikipedia)
- GPS coordinates
- -20.15861, 57.50306Aapravasi Ghat (Wikipedia)
Good to know
Three things to remember.
“Aapravasi” is Hindi for “immigrant”; “ghat” means the interface between land and sea.
Aapravasi Ghat (Wikipedia)Mauritius was the first British colony to receive an indentured workforce.
Aapravasi Ghat (Wikipedia)The place symbolically marked, for arriving immigrants, the transition from the old life to the new.
Aapravasi Ghat (Wikipedia)
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- Aapravasi Ghat (Wikipedia)
Aapravasi Ghat ('The Immigration Depot') is a building complex located in Port Louis, Mauritius, the first British colony to receive indentured, or contracted, labour workforce […] From 1849 to 1923, half a million Indian indentured labourers passed through the Immigration Depot, to be transported to plantations throughout the British Empire. […] symbolically marking a transition between the old life and the new for the arriving indentured immigrants […] declared a World Heritage Site in 2006. Aapravasi is the Hindi word for "immigrant", while ghat literally means "interface" […] The Immigration Depot was built on the east side of the sheltered bay of Trou Fanfaron in Port Louis, the Mauritian capital. (coordinates -20.15861, 57.50306)
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