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Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (April 14, 1831 - June 2, 1896) was a German geographer, explorer and adventurer. Events 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar 's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Year 1831 ( MDCCCXXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Events 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία - geografia) is the study of the Earth and its lands features inhabitants and phenomena He was born at Vegesack, near Bremen. Geography Vegesack is located at the mouth of the river Lesum, beside the Weser River, at ] Bremen (ˈbʁeːmən is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany (official name Stadtgemeinde Bremen / City Municipality of Bremen Rohlfs was the first European to cross Africa north to south. His route took him from Tripoli through the Sahara desert, over Lake Chad, along the Niger River to the Gulf of Guinea from 1865-1867. Tripolis ( Arabic: طرابلس Ṭarābulus - also طرابلس الغرب Ṭarā-bu-lus al-Gharb Libyan vernacular: The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى aṣ-ṣaḥrā´ al-kubra, "The Great Desert" is the world's largest hot Desert and the world's second largest Lake Chad (in French Lac Tchad) is a historically large shallow lake in Africa, whose size has varied greatly over the centuries The Niger River (ˈnaɪdʒɚ NYE-jer) is the principal River of western Africa, extending about 4180 km (2600 miles The Gulf of Guinea is the part of the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Africa. Year 1865 ( MDCCCLXV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting He was to the second European explorer to visit the region of the Draa River in the south of Morocco. Dra is also the abbreviation for the constellation Draco. The Draa (درعَا (also spelled Dra or Draâ, in older Morocco (المغرب "al-Maghrib" officially the Kingdom of Morocco (المملكة المغربية is a country located in North Africa In 1874 Rohlfs set out from Dakhla Oasis intending to reack Kufra. Year 1874 ( MDCCCLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Dakhla Oasis ( Arabic الداخلة al-Dākhla; BGN: Al Wāḩāt ad Dākhilah) also called the "inner oasis" is Kufra (also spelled Cufra or Khofra) is an Oasis in Southeastern Libya that played a minor role in the Western Desert Campaign of World In February he was sixty miles north of Abu Ballas (Pottery Hill) in the Western Desert. The Western Desert is a Desert region encompassing 600000km² of land to the west of the Nile in Egypt and Libya. Accompanied by Karl Zittel and a surveyor called Jordans, Rohlfs and his colleagues experienced a downpouring of rain - a rare occurrence in the desert, seemingly only happening every twenty years. Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel ( September 25, 1839 - January 5, 1904) German Palaeontologist, was born at Bahlingen Rain is Liquid precipitation. On Earth it is the condensation of atmospheric Water vapor into drops heavy enough to fall often making it to Rohlf's team restocked and watered their camels and left a cairn at the place he had named Regenfeld (Rainfield) [1]. A cairn ( carn in Irish is an artificial pile of stones often in a conical form He wrote:


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  1. ^ W. B. Kennedy Shaw, Long Range Desert Group, Greenhill Books 2000

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