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Vittorio Bottego was an Italian army officer and one of the first Western explorers of Jubaland and southern Ethiopia, where he led two expeditions.
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Ada GobettiAlso won Medal of Military Valour
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Vittorio Bottego was an Italian army officer and one of the first Western explorers of Jubaland and southern Ethiopia, where he led two expeditions. He was the first European explorer to follow the course of the lower Omo River to its confluence with Lake Turkana and to reach Lake Abaya, which he called Lake Margherita after Queen Margherita of Savoy, the wife of King Humbert I of Italy.
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Historical Figures
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Historical Figure
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deceased
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Lived 1860 to 1897 · aged 36
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