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Wilhelm Junker

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Johann Wilhelm Junker
Born:
April 6, 1840, Moscow, Russia
Died:
February 13, 1892, St. Petersburg (aged 51)
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Wilhelm Junker (born April 6, 1840, Moscow, Russia—died February 13, 1892, St. Petersburg) was a Russian explorer of the southern Sudan and Central Africa who determined the course of a major Congo River tributary, the Ubangi River, together with one of its branches, the Uele. After journeys to Iceland (1869) and Tunis (1873–74), Junker went to Egypt and the Sudan (1875), where from 1876 to 1878 he explored the lower Sobat River and the western tributaries of the White Nile. In 1879 he went to Equatoria, the southernmost province of the Sudan, and spent part of the next several years ...(100 of 175 words)

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