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.

Bibliography

See J. Thomson, Mungo Park and the River Niger (1890, repr. 1970).

Park, Mungo

Born Sept. 10, 1771, in Foulshiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland; died in 1806. Scottish explorer of West Africa.

From 1795 to 1797, Park traveled from the mouth of the Gambia River eastward to the city of Ségou, on the upper Niger. He then traveled about 50 km down the river and collected information on the river’s course to Tombouctou (Timbuktu). In 1805–06 he descended the river from the Ségou area to rapids near the village of Bussa, on the lower Niger, where he drowned.

WORKS

In Russian translation:
Puteshestvie vo vnutrennost’ Afriki …, parts 1–2. St. Petersburg, 1806–08.

REFERENCE

Gornung, M. B., Iu. G., Lipets, and I. N. Oleinikov. Istoriia otkrytiia i issledovaniia Afriki. Moscow, 1973.

Mungo Park

Mungo Park

Park, Mungo,

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Park, Mungo

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Synonyms for Mungo Park

noun Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806)

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