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Person
Authorized form of name
Speke, John Hanning
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Description area
Dates of existence
1827-1864
History
Captain John Hanning Speke was an English explorer and officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was the first European to reach Lake Victoria