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Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
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...Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 1841–1904, Anglo-American journalist, explorer, and empire builder...David Livingstone. Stanley located the great explorer on Lake Tanganyika...Livingstone to leave Africa, Stanley returned to England......
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Kinshasa
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......Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo, on the opposite bank of Pool Malebo. In 1881 Henry M. Stanley, the Anglo-American explorer, renamed Kinshasa Leopoldville after his patron, Leopold II, king of the Belgians. In 1898 the rail......
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Kisangani
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......international airport and hydroelectricity is produced on a nearby tributary of the Congo. Founded in 1883 by the explorer Henry M. Stanley and originally located on a nearby island in the river, the city, as Stanleyville, became the stronghold......
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Ujiji
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......was an important settlement of Arab and Swahili ivory and slave traders between c.1850 and c.1890. The explorer Henry M. Stanley successfully ended his search for David Livingstone at Ujiji on Nov. 10, 1871. There are fisheries. The......
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Victoria, Lake
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......lakeside towns, including Entebbe, Mwanza, Bukoba, and Kisumu. The first European to see Lake Victoria (originally called Ukerewe) was John Speke, the British explorer, in 1858; Henry Stanley explored the region in 1875....
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Emin Pasha
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......pä´shä), 1840–92, German explorer, whose original name...explorers—including Sir H. M. Stanley—were sent to rescue him...1889) at length to accompany Stanley to Mombasa. He was murdered...Tanganyika. See Sir Henry Stanley, In Darkest Africa, ed......
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Livingstone, David
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......1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa, the first European to cross...Tanganyika, where the journalist H. M. Stanley found him in 1871. Unable to persuade Livingstone to leave, Stanley joined him on a journey (1871–72......
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Erie, Lake
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......Canadian shore, where the chief towns are Port Colborne and Port Stanley. The principal U.S. cities on the lake are Buffalo, Erie...lake bottom.The first European to see the lake was French explorer Louis Jolliet in 1669. The British and the French, and later......
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Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton
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...Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, 1858–1927, British explorer and colonial official. His early interest in the natural...Saharan Africa in 1882 and in 1883 encountered Henry Morton Stanley in the Congo Basin. In 1884 he made an expedition to Mt......
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New Guinea
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......New Guinea has vast, rugged mountain ranges such as the Owen Stanley and the Bismarck mts., and many parts of the interior remain...000 years ago.The island was sighted by the Portuguese explorer Antonio d'Abreu in 1511 and was named for its resemblance......