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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 ...
He also feared that he might be recognised as a Christian in Ségou as Mungo Park had visited the town in 1796. [35] [36] Continuing eastwards he reached the Kong highlands, where at the village of Tiémé in present-day Ivory Coast, he was detained for five months (3 August 1827 – 9 January 1828) by illness.
After a long illness he became the first Frenchman to reach Timbuktu. Returned north via Morocco to Tangier. Dixon Denham (1786–1828), Clapperton (1788–1827) & Walter Oudney (1786–1828) {+ Adolf Overweg (1813–1852)} [1822-25]. From Tripoli they became the first Europeans to see Lake Chad.
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 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.
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September 11 – Mungo Park, Scottish explorer (d. 1806) [10] September 17 – Johann August Apel, German writer, jurist (d. 1816) September 23 – Emperor KÅkaku of Japan (d. 1840) October 9 – Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1815) October 23 – Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
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