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OK - lately I've been reading accounts of 19th C. European exploration in central Africa - largely sponsored by the same folk at the RGS that sent out the polar explorers - that were tasked with finding the source of the Nile, specifically the White Nile branch.
1. Pliny the Elder wrongly identified which river as the origin of the Nile?
2. In 1858, John Speke stole a march on his gravely ill partner Richard Burton, and was apparently the first European to view this lake, which he claimed as the source of the Nile?
3. Burton hotly denied Speke's claim, and the search for the source of the Nile continued. David Livingstone veered too far west and wrongly identified which river as the source of the Nile?
4. Which European explorer confirmed Speke's claim, and what previously unseen landmark did he identify as the actual source of the Nile?
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