Verney Lovett Cameron
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Verney Lovett Cameron was an English traveller in Central Africa and the first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea.
"He walked across Africa" Cameron as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, July 1876
Expedition to Africa
Verney Lovett Cameron in 1878
Lukuga River
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The Lukuga River is a tributary of the Lualaba River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that drains Lake Tanganyika. It is unusual in that its flow varies not just seasonally but also due to long
Verney Lovett Cameron
…papers. Cameron spent some time determining the true form of the southern part of the lake, and solved the question of its outlet by the discovery of the Lukuga River. From Tanganyika he struck westward to Nyangwe, the Arab town on the Lualaba previously visited by Livingstone. This river Cameron rightly believed to…
River Lukuga from the bridge in Kalemie
The Lukuga River, in dark blue
The black line indicates Stanley's route.