biography
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Baker, Sir Samuel (White)
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| lived:
| (1821–93)
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| biography:
| Explorer, born in London, UK. In 1860 he undertook the exploration of the Nile sources, meeting Speke and Grant at Gondokoro in 1863. In 1864 Baker reached the inland sea into which the Nile flows, and named it Albert Nyanza (now L Mobutu Sese Seko). His books include Eight Years Wandering in Ceylon (1855) and The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia (1867). He was knighted in 1866. |
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