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Mungo Park commemorative medal. Mungo Park (11 September 1771 – 1806) 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 ...
Mungo Park may refer to: Mungo Park (explorer) (1771–1806), Scottish explorer; Mungo Park (golfer) (1836–1904), Scottish golfer; Mungo Park Jr. (1877–1960), pioneer in South American golf; Mungo Park (theatre), a theater in Denmark; Mungo Park Medal, an award; Mungo National Park, an Australian park "Mungo Park", a 2016 Nigerian song by ...
The lake is the central feature of Mungo National Park, and is one of seventeen lakes in the World Heritage listed Willandra Lakes Region. Sediments at Lake Mungo have been deposited over more than 100,000 years. There are three distinct layers of sands and soil forming the Walls around the edge of the lake.
She is Chairman of the Dodwell Trust and was awarded the Mungo Park Medal in 1989. [1] Dodwell has travelled in West Africa, the former Rhodesia, Papua New Guinea, Turkey, China, Afghanistan, Madagascar, Siberia, and Kurdistan, by horse, canoe, elephant, camel and microlight, and has published books and articles about many of her travels.
The central feature of Mungo National Park is Lake Mungo, the second largest of the ancient dry lakes.The Mungo National Park is noted for the archaeological remains discovered in the park [5] the remains of Mungo Man, the oldest human remains discovered in Australia, and Mungo Lady, the oldest known human to have been ritually cremated. [6]
Bangs' articles and essays have appeared in many places, including in The New York Times, Slate and The Huffington Post. [3] Bangs has authored 19 books. His book The Lost River: A Memoir of Life, Death and the Transformation of Wild Water won the National Outdoor Book Award in the literature category, and the Lowell Thomas Award for best book.
A boy kidnapped from a California park more than seven decades ago was found alive and well as a senior citizen and reunited with surviving loved ones after his niece found him across the country ...
The Mungo Park Medal is awarded by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in recognition of outstanding contributions to geographical knowledge through exploration and/or research, and/or work of a practical nature of benefit to humanity in potentially hazardous physical and/or social environments.