Isthmus of Fitzcarrald
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The Fitzcarrald Isthmus is an 11 km long land bridge that connected important rubber trade routes of the Urubamba River and the Madre de Dios River in Peru.
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Transporting a steam launch across the Isthmus of Fitzcarrald
Henry Wickham (explorer)
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Sir Henry Alexander Wickham was a British explorer. He was the first person to smuggle a large, viable shipment of Brazilian rubber seeds to the British Empire. The British had long planned to create
Isthmus of Fitzcarrald
…mapped out the isthmus, Fitzcarrald died four years after he had discovered it; the rubber boom ended less than a decade later after the biopiracy of Henry Wickham, who smuggled tens of thousands of rubber seeds out of Brazil. This eventually led to the complete collapse of the South American rubber economy when…
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“Henry Wickham, who in 1876 directed an operation smuggling 70,000 rubber tree seeds”