Mungo Park (explorer)

Mungo Park (10 September 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer known for his expeditions to West Africa, particularly along the Niger River. During his first expedition (1795–1797), undertaken on behalf of the African Association, he reached the Niger River and documented its eastward course. His account, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (1799), became widely read in Europe and contributed to European geographical knowledge of the region. Park undertook a second expedition to the Niger in 1805. He died in 1806 near Bussa, Nigeria, in present-day Nigeria, while attempting to travel downstream along the river.

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