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| 1853 |
| | | David Livingstone makes a heroic six-month journey from the Zambezi river to the west coast of Africa | |
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| 1855 |
| | | David Livingstone, moving down the Zambezi, comes upon the Victoria Falls | |
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| 1857 |
| | | Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke set off from Bagamoyo in their search for the source of the Nile | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Burton and Speke reach Lake Tanganyika at Ujiji, a place later famous for the meeting between Livingstone and Stanley | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Speke reaches Lake Victoria and guesses that it is probably the source of the Nile | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Frozen remains and a document are finally found to reveal the fate of the Franklin expedition of 1845 to the NorthWest Passage | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Richard Burton, visiting Dahomey, provides reports of the kingdom's celebrated Amazons preparing for war | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Speke and Grant find the Ripon Falls, over which the headwater of the Nile flows from Lake Tanganyika | |
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| 1862 |
| | | John McDouall Stuart reaches the north coast of Australia at Van Diemen's Gulf seven months after setting off from Adelaide | |
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| 1862 |
| | | The bones of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills are brought back to Melbourne after the heroic failure of their attempt to cross Australia | |
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