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Royal Geographical Society (RGS)
The Mythical Sea of Uniamesi &c., 1856
7 1/2 x 9 in
19 x 22.5 cm
19 x 22.5 cm
AFR4402
£ 295.00
Royal Geographical Society (RGS), The Mythical Sea of Uniamesi &c., 1856
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Curious map of the Sea of Uniamesi, an enormous hypothesised lake thought to be the source of the Nile, Congo, and Zambezi rivers. Jakob Erhardt, a German missionary in East...
Curious map of the Sea of Uniamesi, an enormous hypothesised lake thought to be the source of the Nile, Congo, and Zambezi rivers.
Jakob Erhardt, a German missionary in East Africa, was the chief proponent of the theory having heard reports of a large lake in the interior of the continent. He had also noticed that caravans travelling into the interior from different starting positions on the coast had all run into a large body of water.
The lake first appeared in the Calwer Missionsblatt in 1855 and was soon republished in the Church Missionary intelligencer, both important missionary newspapers. The Sea of Uniamesi was short-lived, as by the 1870s it had become clear that there were three Great Lakes (Victoria, Tanganyika, and Malawi) rather than one enormous inland sea.
While the Sea of Uniamesi may look preposterous to us today, it is a reminder of just how unknown the interior of Africa remained to Europeans until just over a century ago.
Printed colour. [AFR4402]
Jakob Erhardt, a German missionary in East Africa, was the chief proponent of the theory having heard reports of a large lake in the interior of the continent. He had also noticed that caravans travelling into the interior from different starting positions on the coast had all run into a large body of water.
The lake first appeared in the Calwer Missionsblatt in 1855 and was soon republished in the Church Missionary intelligencer, both important missionary newspapers. The Sea of Uniamesi was short-lived, as by the 1870s it had become clear that there were three Great Lakes (Victoria, Tanganyika, and Malawi) rather than one enormous inland sea.
While the Sea of Uniamesi may look preposterous to us today, it is a reminder of just how unknown the interior of Africa remained to Europeans until just over a century ago.
Printed colour. [AFR4402]
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