Mungo Park

Mungo Park 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 theorised the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, though it was later proven that they…

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Who was born first?

• Mungo Park and Richard Trevithick were born the same year
• Mungo Park and George Bass were born the same year
• Mungo Park was born 1 year after William Clark
• Mungo Park was born 1 year after David Thompson
• Mungo Park was born 2 years before Yuri Lisyansky

Timeline

1. David ThompsonApril 30, 1770 – February 10, 1857
2. William ClarkAugust 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838
3. George BassJanuary 30, 1771 – February 5, 1803
4. Mungo Park (this page)September 11, 1771 – 1806
5. Richard TrevithickApril 13, 1771 – April 22, 1833
6. Yuri LisyanskyApril 1, 1773 – February 22, 1837

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