European explorers of Africa: interactive map

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Who were the first Europeans to see Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya?

The missionaries Johannes Rebmann (Kilimanjaro, 1848) and Ludwig Krapf (Mount Kenya, 1849).

Who found the source of the Nile?

John Hanning Speke identified Lake Victoria in 1858 and saw the Nile leave it at the Ripon Falls in 1862.

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