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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 (1771–1806) [1795-96]. A Scot, commissioned by the African Association to explore the River Niger. Set out from the River Gambia and got to the River Niger. Imprisoned and escaped. Friedrich Hornemann (1772–1801) [1798-1800]. From Tripoli to Murzuk in 1799.
In 1806, British explorer Mungo Park drowned in Bussa while on his second expedition to trace the course of the Niger River. During 1894-1898 its possession was disputed by Great Britain and France. [1]
Before the month was out Pearce and Morrison were dead of fever. Clapperton continued his journey, and, passing through the Yoruba country, in January 1826 he crossed the Niger at Bussa, the spot where Mungo Park had died twenty years before. [1]
Park was born in Musselburgh, Scotland (near Edinburgh) on 9 January 1877. [1] His father, Willie , was one of Scotland's top golfers, who won the first Open Championship in 1860 [ 2 ] and Mungo (nicknamed Mungo Jr., although that was not his father's name) learned golf from childhood.
Former South Carolina offensive lineman Joseph “DJ” Park has died, ... Park played for Jackie Hayes at Dillon High School and was part of the Wildcats’ 2012 state championship team. He was a ...
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