Person    | Male  Born 1451  Died 24/5/1500

Bartolomeu Dias

Categories: Exploring

Countries: Africa, Portugal

Portuguese nobleman who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, in 1488, the first European known to do so since ancient times.

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Bartolomeu Dias

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Dias statue

Dias rests his right hand on a cross which tops what appears to be a lighthou...

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Robert Sinclair

Robert Sinclair

Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.

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David Livingstone

David Livingstone

Explorer, missionary, writer and medic. Born at Blantyre, just south of Glasgow. Qualified as a doctor in order to go as a medical missionary to China. Got the source of the Nile wrong and failed t...

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2 memorials
David Young

David Young

Role on the lost expedition: Boy on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.

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1 memorial
Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson

Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

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1 memorial