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Francis Rawdon Chesney
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Chesney, detail from a painting over a photograph; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Francis Rawdon Chesney: Facts & Related Content

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Born March 16, 1789 • Northern Ireland
Died January 30, 1872 (aged 82) • Northern Ireland

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Chesney, detail from a painting over a photograph; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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German explorer
Oxley, John
John Oxley
British explorer
Evans, George William
George William Evans
English surveyor and explorer
Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
British explorer
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders
British navigator
William Martin Conway, Baron Conway
British explorer and art historian
George Bass
British explorer
Edward Bransfield
British explorer
Frémont, John C.
John C. Frémont
American explorer, military officer, and politician
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
John Smith
John Smith
British explorer
Dumont d'Urville, engraving by Émile Lassalle after Maurin
Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d’Urville
French explorer
King, Clarence
Clarence King
American geologist
George Vancouver
George Vancouver
British explorer
Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet
French cartographer
Nicollet, Joseph Nicolas
Joseph Nicolas Nicollet
French scientist and explorer
Adolf Overweg
German astronomer, geologist, and traveler
Romolo Gessi
Italian explorer and soldier
Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto
Portuguese explorer
Ludwig Mylius-Erichsen
Danish explorer

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