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Captain John Hanning Speke (4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864) was an English explorer and army officer who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was the first European to reach Lake Victoria (known to locals as Nam Lolwe in Dholuo and Nnalubaale or Ukerewe in Luganda ).
The Fourth German Inner Africa Research Expedition was carried out in Nigeria and Cameroon between 1910 and 1912 under the leadership of ethnographer Leo Frobenius. Frobenius carried out archaeological excavations at the ancient Yoruba city of Ife in Nigeria and published his findings in twelve volumes between 1921 and 1928.
The expedition was led by Frobenius, though he did not accompany it - the leader of the field group was Jensen. [24] This would be the last of the Frobenius Expeditions to Africa; though he would lead the "Frobenius Expedition I" to New Guinea in 1937-8 and the "Frobenius Expedition II" to Australia in 1938. He died in August 1938. [25]
Travels in the Congo (French: Voyage au Congo) is a French documentary film, directed by Marc Allégret.It depicts his expedition in French Equatorial Africa (which covered the modern nations of Gabon, Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and Chad). [1]
Interior of Africa 1851–1873 David Livingstone: The Burke and Wills expedition (Central Australia) 1860–1861 Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills: Exploration of the Zambeze river region, Central Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Zaire 1877 Serpa Pinto: The Northern Sea Route: 1878 Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld: The South Magnetic Pole ...
Gatti, a member of the Società Reale Italiana di Geografia ed Antropologia, was among the last great safari expedition men. He led thirteen expeditions to Africa starting in 1922. [3] Broke after the financial disaster of his 7th African expedition, Gatti settled in the US in 1930. His second spouse Ellen [4] accompanied him on his 8th expedition.
Johann Jakob Erhardt, or John James Erhardt, (17 April 1823 – 14 August 1901) was a German missionary and explorer who worked in East Africa and India.Although he remained on or near the coast of East Africa, he contributed to European knowledge of the interior through gathering descriptions from local people who had traveled there.
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