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Born March 19, 1813 • Scotland
Died May 1, 1873 (aged 60) • Zambia

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David Livingstone
David Livingstone's birthplace
Map of southern and central Africa showing the routes of David Livingstone's major expeditions between 1841 and 1873, with color-coded lines representing his early journeys, the crossing of the continent, the Zambezi expedition, and his quest for the Nile. Key locations, lakes, and dates of significant events are labeled along the routes.
First European sighting of Lake Ngami
Victoria Falls
The Life & Explorations of Dr. Livingstone
David Livingstone
Zambia: Lake Bangweulu
Wood engraving depicting Henry Morton Stanley greeting David Livingstone with a hat tip at Ujiji, Lake Tanganyika, surrounded by local people and an American flag, with thatched huts in the background.
David Livingstone memorial
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Park, Mungo
Mungo Park
Scottish explorer
David Douglas
David Douglas
Scottish botanist
Rae, detail from an oil painting by S. Pearce; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Rae
Scottish explorer
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Macgregor Laird
British explorer
Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
British explorer
Thomson, Joseph
Joseph Thomson
British explorer
Alexander Gordon Laing, engraving
Alexander Gordon Laing
Scottish explorer
C. Wyville Thomson, 1877.
Sir C. Wyville Thomson
Scottish naturalist
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James Augustus Grant
British explorer
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Robert Fortune
Scottish botanist and traveler
Clapperton, Hugh
Hugh Clapperton
British explorer
Baikie, detail from an engraving, 1864
William Balfour Baikie
British explorer
Alexander Mackenzie
Alexander Mackenzie
Scottish explorer
James Clark Ross.
Sir James Clark Ross
British explorer
Chalmers, James
James Chalmers
Scottish missionary
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Lady Hester Stanhope
British noble
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Sir Richard Burton
Sir Richard Burton
British scholar and explorer
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, detail of a portrait by Sir Hubert von Herkomer; in the City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
Henry Morton Stanley
British American explorer

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