1 Amsterdam Island, French Southern Territories, 11,547 mi. 2  Bantam, Cocos Islands, 11,126 mi. 3  Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia, 10,957 mi. 4  Carnarvon, Western Australia, Australia, 10,949 mi.  Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia, 10,914 mi.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is stepping down after two terms as Africaâs first democratically elected female president. The National Election Commission announced on Friday that Mr. Weah had won with 61.5 percent of the vote.
The colony was ruled over by white leaders until 1842, when Joseph Jenkins Roberts took over the leadership of Liberia. Roberts became the first president of Liberia in 1847 when Liberia declared its independence, and became its own nation.Liberia was not the victim of imperialism, rather the mediocre result of good intentions.merican Imperialism in Liberia. Until the late 19th century, America was not an imperialist nation in the sense that the western European nations were. The wars with Native Americans were not so much a colonization effort as it was sheer conquest.