Mungo Park
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Mungo Park
(born Sept. 10, 1771, Fowlshiels, Selkirk, Scot.died January 1806, near Bussa on the Niger River) Scottish explorer of the Niger River. A trained surgeon, Park had traveled to the East Indies before being chosen by the African Association to head an expedition to find the source of the Niger River (179597). He lost most of his crew and supplies, was imprisoned and tortured for four months by hostile Arabs, and suffered severe illness, reaching Sgou (now in Mali) but not the river's source. His Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (1797) became a great popular success. On a second expedition (180506) he reached Bamako, but he was killed on the return trip.
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Mungo Park
Park, Mungo (1771-1806). A child of the Scottish Enlightenment, Park's Edinburgh medical and botanical training and Sumatran experience led Banks to choose him to explore the interior of west Africa for the African Association in 1795. From the Gambian coast he reached the Niger near Segu, ending long controversy by proving that the river flowed eastwards. A more ambitious expedition for the British government ended in disaster in 1806 when Park was killed at Bussa much further down the Niger.
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Mungo Park
Park, Mungo, 1771-1806, British explorer in Africa, b. Selkirk, Scotland. After serving as a surgeon with the East India Company, he was employed by the African Association to explore the course of the Niger River. Traveling NE from the Gambia River, he reached the Niger at Segu and proceeded 300 mi (483 km) upstream to Bamako. On his return to England he published Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (1799). He was sent (1805) by the government to trace the Niger to its mouth, but at Bussa he and his party were attacked in their canoes and Park was drowned.
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See J. Thomson, Mungo Park and the River Niger (1890, repr. 1970).
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, Mungo 1771-1806.Scottish explorer in Africa known for his expeditions on the Niger River (1795-1796 and 1805).
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Mungo Park
Mungo Park may refer to:
- Mungo Park (explorer)
- Mungo Park (golfer)
- Mungo Park (theatre)
- Mungo Park Medal, an award
- John Mungo-Park, WW2 fighter pilot
- Mungo National Park
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