V. The Modern Period, 1789–1914 > G. Africa, 1795–1917 > 2. European Exploration, 1795–1895 > 1837–48
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1837–48
 
Extensive researches of Antoine T. d'Abbadie in Ethiopia.  1
 
1840–43
 
Charles T. Beke mapped much of Ethiopia.  2
 
1848
 
Ladislus Magyan explored the Congo River.  3
 
1849
 
DAVID LIVINGSTONE crossed the Kalahari Desert and advanced to Lake Ngami, returning (1850) to the upper Zambezi.  4
 
1849–55
 
Heinrich Barth and Adolf Overweg crossed from Tripoli to the Niger and Lake Chad, thoroughly studying the country for the first time. Barth made extensive observations of the Central Sudan.  5
 
1853–56
 
Livingstone crossed the continent from the Zambezi to Loanda and returned, discovering the Victoria Falls.  6
 
1850–65
 
Paul du Chaillu explored Gabon.  7
 
1857–58
 
Richard Burton and John Speke discovered Lake Tanganyika and Victoria Nyanza, Speke concluding that Victoria Nyanza was the source of the White Nile.  8
 
1858–61
 
Third Expedition of Livingstone, from the Zambezi to the interior. He discovered Lake Nyasa (1859).  9
 
1861–63
 
Speke and James Grant passed through Uganda, reached the Nile, and descended it to Gondokoro, where they met Sir Samuel Baker (1863), who had ascended the river to that point.  10
 
1864
 
Baker, continuing up the Nile, discovered Albert Nyanza and visited the kingdom of Bunyoro, whence he returned to Gondokoro.  11
 
1865–67
 
Extensive exploration of the Benuë-Niger region by Gustav Rohlfs.  12
 
 
 
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