Mungo Park
Scottish naturalist and explorer of the African continent · Historical Figures · Lived 1771 to 1806 · aged 35
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Something wrong?Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, though it was later proven that they...
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Mungo Park commemorative medal
View of Kamalia in Mandingo country, Africa, from: Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Park was one of the first European explorers of Central Africa, and was one of the first explorers mentioned in Reisen in Central-Afrika - von Mungo Park bis auf Dr. Barth u. Dr. Vogel (1859) (Travels in Central-Africa - from Mungo Park to Dr. Barth and Dr. Vogel)
Mungo Park's doorplate from his house in Peebles, National Museum of Scotland
Map of Mungo Park's journeys
The Mungo Park Monument in Selkirk, Scotland by Andrew CurrieHistorical Figures born in the 1770s 6
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Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, though it was later proven that they are different rivers. He was killed during a second expedition, having successfully travelled about two-thirds of the way down the Niger.
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