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John Hanning Speke (May 4, 1827 – September 15, 1864) was an officer in the British Indian army, who made three voyages of exploration to Africa.
Speke thus went alone, and found the lake, which he christened Lake Victoria.
Speke's voyage did not resolve the issue, Burton claimed that because Speke had not followed the Nile from the place it flowed out of Lake Victoria to Gondokoro, he could not be sure they were the same river.
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John Hanning Speke (May 4 1827 – September 15 1864) was an officer in the British Indian army, who made three voyages of exploration to (The second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean) Africa.
He also created the (Click link for more info and facts about Hamitic hypothesis) Hamitic hypothesis, a major cause of the (Click link for more info and facts about Rwandan genocide) Rwandan genocide.
Speke thus went alone, and found the lake, which he christened (The largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest fresh water lake in the world; a headwaters reservoir for the Nile River) Lake Victoria.
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AllRefer.com - John Hanning Speke (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
John Hanning Speke[spEk] Pronunciation Key, 1827–64, English explorer in Africa.
Together they discovered (1858) Lake Tanganyika; then Speke continued alone and discovered Lake Victoria, which he believed to be a source of the Nile.
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 Speke, John Hanning on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
He wrote Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863).
John Hanning Speke (1827-64): Richard Burton's exploring companion, John Speke was the first European to reach Lake Victoria, which he correctly identified as a source of the Nile.(Late Great Geographers #54)(Biography)
Publication: The Sunday Telegraph; Author: John Preston ; Source: NEWSPAPERS
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 John Hanning Speke
Speke, John Hanning, 1827–64, English explorer in Africa.
John Hanning Speke (1827-64): Richard Burton's exploring companion, John Speke was the first European to reach Lake Victoria, which he correctly identified as a source of the Nile.(Late Great Geographers #54)(Biography) (Geographical)
Speke, John Hanning (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
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