Florence Baker

…Nile explorers Samuel Baker and Florence von Sass (who later became Baker’s wife). Speke and Grant told them of another lake said to lie west of Lake Victoria. This information helped the Baker party to locate another Nile source, Lake Albert.

…Sir Samuel White Baker and Florence von Sass (who later married Baker), who met them at Gondokoro, having come up from Cairo. Baker and von Sass then continued their journey south and discovered Lake Albert. Neither Speke nor Baker had followed the Nile completely from the Ripon Falls to Gondokoro,…

…White Baker, and his wife, Florence, had approached the East African lakes from the north, reaching Lake Albert in 1864. In 1888–89 Stanley, in company with Mehmed Emin Pasha, the German explorer, traced the Semliki River to its source in Lake Edward. Finally, in 1894, a German explorer, Adolf von…