Mungo Park

✶September 11, 1771

†January 1, 1806

1 candle burning, 4 lit in all

About their life

Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorised the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, though it was later proven that they are different rivers. He was killed during a second expedition, having successfully travelled about two-thirds of the way down the Niger.

Scottish naturalist and explorer of the African continent

☆ Follow

Biography from the article Mungo Park on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.