Duwatsun Kong

**Tsaunukan Kong** wani tsauni ne na almara da aka tsara akan taswirorin Afirka daga 1798 zuwa aƙalla ƙarshen 1880s.  An yi tunanin cewa tsaunukan za su fara ne a yammacin Afirka kusa da tuddan tushen kogin Niger kusa da Tembakounda a kasar Guinea, sannan su ci gaba da gabas zuwa tsaunukan tsakiyar Afirka na wata, wanda ake tunanin shine inda kogin Nilu ya kasance. Babu ɗaya daga cikin waɗannan tsaunuka a zahiri.

## Tarihi
A cikin 1798, taswirar da ta samo asali daga binciken yankin ta Mungo Park  ya nuna wannan tsauni daga yamma zuwa gabas a karon farko. Wani ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ɗan ƙasar Ingila James Rennell ne ya shirya shi  wanda ya nuna ƙafewar Nijar a cikin garin Wangara .  Wannan kewayon an yi niyya ne don tallafawa ra'ayinsa game da hanyar kogin Neja, kuma a ƙarshe ya haifar da babban tasiri ga masana'antar taswira don haɗawa da tsaunuka. A cikin 1802, Aaron Arrowsmith ya fitar da taswirar da ta haɗa da Dutsen Kong a matsayin babban yanayin yanayin yanayin yammacin Afirka, wanda ya ƙarfafa sauran masu shela su sabunta taswirorin su don daidaitawa. 

Mai yin taswirar Jamus Johann Reinecke ya haɗa da tsaunuka a cikin taswirarsa na 1804 a matsayin Gebirge Kong . [1] A shekara ta 1805, mai zanen London John Cary ya nuna musu a karon farko suna danganta da tsaunukan wata.

Masu bincike na ƙarni na goma sha tara na Yammacin Afirka sun haɗa da kewayon taswirorin da suka yi ko kuma wanda suka jagoranci samar da su bayan binciken yankin. Waɗannan sun haɗa da mai binciken Faransa René Caillié, wanda ya binciko tsaunukan Guinea a Fouta Djallon, kusa da tushen Nijar; Masanin binciken Masarautar Richard Lemon Lander da ƙanensa John ; da mai binciken ɗan ƙasar Scotland Hugh Clapperton, wanda shi ma ya nemi hanyar kogin Neja a samansa.  Masana tarihi Thomas Basset da Phillip Porter sun gano taswirori arba'in, waɗanda aka buga tsakanin 1798 da 1892, suna nuna tsaunuka.  

Duk da gazawar sauran masu bincike daga baya wajen gano wurin, ya ci gaba da bayyana akan taswirori har zuwa karshen karni na sha tara.

Masu zane-zane sun fara tsayawa har da tsaunukan kan taswirori bayan mai binciken Faransa Louis Gustave Binger ya tabbatar da cewa tsaunukan na tatsuniyoyi ne, a cikin balaguron da ya yi a 1887-89 don zayyana kogin Neja daga bakinsa a gabar Tekun Guinea da kuma ta Cote d'Ivoire . 

A cikin 1928, Bartholemew's Oxford Advanced Atlas har yanzu yana ƙunshe da su a cikin ma'aunin sa yana gano su a 8° 40' N, 5° 0' W.  Ko da daga baya, sun bayyana kuskure a cikin Goode 's World Atlas na 1995. 

## Sunaye masu alaƙa
Garin Kong, Ivory Coast ya samo asali ne a karni na 12 kuma yana dauke da sunan da ya ba tsaunuka. Wannan ya tashi cikin iko a cikin karni na 17 don kafa daular Kong, wanda a ƙarshe ya wuce ƙarƙashin mulkin mallaka na Faransa.

## Gallery na taswira

Fayil:1813_pinkerton.jpg|alt=A map of Africa, made by John Pinkerton in 1813.| Taswirar Afirka, wanda John Pinkerton ya yi a 1813.
Fayil:Guinea_from_Milner's_Atlas.jpg|alt=The Mountains of Kong on the "Africa" map in Milner's Atlas, 1850.| Dutsen Kong akan taswirar "Afirka" a Milner's Atlas, 1850.
Fayil:Kong_Mountains.jpeg|alt=1872 detail of Monteith's lesson book African map.| 1872 cikakken littafin darasin Monteith taswirar Afirka.
Fayil:Kong-Berge_1882.jpg|alt=From a 19th-century atlas (1882), "Kong Mountains" marked (red arrow).| Daga Atlas na karni na 19 (1882), "Tunukan Kong" mai alamar (jakar kibiya).
Fayil:Mountains_of_Kong_in_Dutch_atlas_(1877).jpg|alt=Mountains of Kong in Dutch atlas (1877), situated in western Africa.| Dutsen Kong a cikin Dutch atlas (1877), wanda yake a yammacin Afirka.


## Magana