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James Rennell

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James Rennell

James Rennell

Major James Rennell was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography. Rennell produced some of the first accurate maps of Bengal at one inch to five miles as well as accurate outlines of India and served as Surveyor General of Bengal. Rennell has been called the Father of Oceanography. In 1830, he was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society in London.

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Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797

Mungo Park · James Rennell

Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa [1790]

Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa · James Rennell

The journal of Frederick Horneman's travels, from Cairo to Mourzouk, the capital of the kingdom of Fezzan, in Africa, in the years 1797-8

Friedrich Hornemann · William Marsden +3