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speke

/spiːk/

Traduction: Nom propre se rapportant à John Hanning Speke, explorateur anglais qui, avec Sir Richard Burton, fut le premier Européen à explorer le lac Tanganyika ; il découvrit et nomma également le lac Victoria.

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A proper noun referring to John Hanning Speke, an English explorer who, alongside Sir Richard Burton, was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered and named Lake Victoria.

  • 🇫🇷Nom propre se rapportant à John Hanning Speke, explorateur anglais qui, avec Sir Richard Burton, fut le premier Européen à explorer le lac Tanganyika ; il découvrit et nomma également le lac Victoria.
  1. English explorer C1 formal

    John Hanning Speke, an English explorer who, with Sir Richard Burton, was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it.

    • Speke's expedition to the African Great Lakes was a major achievement in Victorian exploration.
    • He and Burton had a famous dispute over the source of the Nile.
    • Speke named Lake Victoria after the British monarch.

    🇫🇷explorateur anglais