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15 de sept. de 2016 · On September 15, 1864, British explorer and army officer John Hanning Speke died by accident with a shot gun. Speke is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was in fact the first European that reached Lake Victoria and as such is the “discoverer of the source of the Nile “. “The expedition had now performed its ...
The British explorer John Hanning Speke (1827-64) is famed for being the first European to visit Lake Victoria and to identify it as the source of the Nile. Speke undertook three African expeditions, the first two with the great explorer Richard Burton (1821-90), like Speke an officer in the Indian Army. In early 1855 Speke accompanied Burton on a voyage from Aden to Somalia and then ...
John Hanning Speke nació el 4 de mayo 1827 en Bideford en Devon. Fue comisionado en el ejército británico en 1844 y enviado a la India, donde se desempeñó en el Punjab y viajó por el Himalaya y el Tíbet. En abril de 1855, como parte de la expedición de Richard Burton para explorar Somalilandia, Speke fue gravemente herido en un ataque ...
John Hanning Speke (Bideford, 4 mai 1827 - Corsham, 15 septembre 1864) est un explorateur britannique de l'Afrique de l'Est. Il a été officier de l' armée britannique en Inde et a effectué trois voyages d'exploration en Afrique.
Hace 5 días · Search for: 'John Hanning Speke' in Oxford Reference ». (1827–64)British explorer. From 1854–1858 he accompanied Sir Richard Burton on expeditions to trace the source of the Nile. They became the first Europeans to discover Lake Tanganyika (1858), after which Speke went on to reach a great lake which he identified as the ‘source ...
Expediţiile lui Speke În anul 1858 , John Hanning Speke va deveni primul european care a poposit pe malurile Lacului Victoria și îi va da numele reginei de atunci a Marii Britanii. Descoperind râul Kagera în 1861 și sursa Nilului Alb în 1862 , Speke a dezlegat misterul izvoarelor Nilului, care i-a preocupat pe cercetătorii Continentului Negru ani îndelungați.
SPEKE, JOHN HANNING (1827–1864), African explorer and discoverer of the source of the Nile, second son of William Speke (1798–1887) of Jordans, near Ilminster, Somerset, by Georgina Elizabeth, daughter of William Hanning of Dillington, was born at Jordans on 4 May 1827. His father, who had been a captain in the 14th dragoons, was the ...
