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Africa Exploration Chart
Explorer
Mungo Park
Who did they
Explore for?
England
Where did
they explore?
What did they
find?
West Africa
and Timbuktu
Learned
about
western Mali
Source of the
Niger River
Significance
or Impact on
History
1st European
to reach
Niger River in
modern times
Course of the
Niger River
Wrote the
was eastward Travel in the
Found that
western
Muslims
controlled
the land
Interior
Districts of
Africa
Mouth of the
Gambia River
England
David
Livingstone
South Africa
Nile River
Zambezi
Central
Africa
Victoria Falls
(waterfall)
Route from
Angola to the
Indian ocean
Proved
Africa was
not an arid
wasteland,
but a fertile
country
Observed
horrors of
African slave
trade
Considered a
hero for
finding the
route
Wrote
Missionary
Travels
France
Sahara
Desert
Discovered
Timbuktu
Atlas
Mountains
Rene Callie
Kabara
Kabara was
different
from
historical
accounts
African west
coast
Richard
Burton &
John Hanning
Speke
England
Nile
Around the
horn of
Africa
Somali land
Near presentday Tanzania
Traveled
4,500 miles
across the
interior of
Africa
Lake Victoria
was the
source of the
Nile River
Discovered 3
large lakes in
the interior
of Africa
Source of the
Nile River
Richard
Burton was a
major linguist
and literary
role model