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Born April 11, 1827 • Nairnshire • Scotland
Died February 11, 1892 (aged 64) • Nairnshire • Scotland

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David Livingstone.
David Livingstone
Scottish explorer and missionary
Park, Mungo
Mungo Park
Scottish explorer
Rae, detail from an oil painting by S. Pearce; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Rae
Scottish explorer
Macgregor Laird
British explorer
Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
British explorer
Thomson, Joseph
Joseph Thomson
British explorer
Alexander Gordon Laing, engraving
Alexander Gordon Laing
Scottish explorer
C. Wyville Thomson, 1877.
Sir C. Wyville Thomson
Scottish naturalist
Robert Fortune
Scottish botanist and traveler
Clapperton, Hugh
Hugh Clapperton
British explorer
Baikie, detail from an engraving, 1864
William Balfour Baikie
British explorer
Alexander Mackenzie
Alexander Mackenzie
Scottish explorer
James Clark Ross.
Sir James Clark Ross
British explorer
David Douglas
Scottish botanist
Chalmers, James
James Chalmers
Scottish missionary
Lady Hester Stanhope
British noble
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Sir Richard Burton
Sir Richard Burton
British scholar and explorer
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, detail of a portrait by Sir Hubert von Herkomer; in the City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
Henry Morton Stanley
British explorer

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Mayflower. Plymouth. Photograph of the Mayflower II a full-scale reproduction of the Mayflower. The Mayflower II built in Devon, England, crossed the Atlantic in 1957 maintained by Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, MA.
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