File:Routes of European explorers in Africa, to 1853.jpg

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Description	English: "Rough Sketch of Africa indicating the progress of recent discoveries" See also File:Heinrich Barth's route through Africa, 1850 to 1855, with routes of previous explorers.jpg for another similar map. Routes are shown for the journeys of the following explorers: 1. James Bruce, 1769–72 2. William George Browne, 1793–96 3. Mungo Park, 1795–96-1805 4. Francisco de Lacerda, 1796 5. Friedrich Hornemann, 1799 6. Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, 1813 & 1814 7. James Hingston Tuckey, 1816 8. Gaspard Théodore Mollien, 1818 9. Joseph Ritchie & George Francis Lyon, 1818–20 10. Walter Oudney, Dixon Denham & Hugh Clapperton, 1821–24 11. Hugh Clapperton & Richard Lemon Lander, 1825 & 1826 12. René Caillié, 1828 13. Richard Lemon Lander, 1830 14. William Allen & R.A.K. Oldfield, 1833 15. James Edward Alexander, 1836 & 1837 16. Charles Tilstone Beke, 1840–43 16a. Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming, 1843–48 17. John Duncan, 1841 (Niger expedition of 1841) 18. Egyptian Expeditions, 1835–41 (Sent by Muhammad Ali of Egypt; see eg Ferdinand Werne (1849)) 19. Johannes Rebmann & Johann Ludwig Krapf, 1847–49 20. David Livingstone, William Cotton Oswell and Mungo Murray, 1849–51 21. Francis Galton, 1851 22. Henry S. Gassiott, 1851 (report) 23. James Richardson, Heinrich Barth & Adolf Overweg1850 & 1852
Date	1854
Source	Webpage, File The map was published as an inset, as the left-hand side of a larger "Map of Damara Land and the Adjacent Countries as explored and surveyed by Francis Galton Esq", published in London by John Murray Ltd in 1854. Part of the larger map can be seen in the top-right of the present image. A thumbnail of the whole map can be seen on the Royal Geographical Society website, image S0016683
Author	August Heinrich Petermann

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