The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa, with Notices of the Lunar Mountains and the Sources of the White Nile; Being the Results of an Expedition Undertaken under the Patronage of Her Majesty's Government and the Royal Geographical Society of London, in the Years 1857-1859

1859 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard F. Burton
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Society ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
White Nile ◽  
Central Equatorial Africa

scholarly journals Correction to: Assessing reanalysis data for understanding rainfall climatology and variability over Central Equatorial Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 5139-5139
Author(s):  
Wenjian Hua ◽  
Liming Zhou ◽  
Sharon E. Nicholson ◽  
Haishan Chen ◽  
Minhua Qin
Keyword(s):  
Reanalysis Data ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
Rainfall Climatology ◽  
Central Equatorial Africa

Satellite-based rainfall data reveal a recent drying trend in central equatorial Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 126 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 263-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy E. Diem ◽  
Sadie J. Ryan ◽  
Joel Hartter ◽  
Michael W. Palace
Keyword(s):  
Rainfall Data ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
Drying Trend ◽  
Central Equatorial Africa

30,000-Year-Old Fossil Restionaceae Pollen from Central Equatorial Africa and Its Biogeographical Significance

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 307 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Bonnefille ◽  
A. C. Hamilton ◽  
H. P. Linder ◽  
G. Riollet
Keyword(s):  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
Central Equatorial Africa

scholarly journals Assessing reanalysis data for understanding rainfall climatology and variability over Central Equatorial Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 651-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjian Hua ◽  
Liming Zhou ◽  
Sharon E. Nicholson ◽  
Haishan Chen ◽  
Minhua Qin
Keyword(s):  
Reanalysis Data ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
Rainfall Climatology ◽  
Central Equatorial Africa

Increasing Influence of Indian Ocean Dipole on Precipitation Over Central Equatorial Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Jiang ◽  
Liming Zhou ◽  
Paul E. Roundy ◽  
Wenjian Hua ◽  
Ajay Raghavendra
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean Dipole ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
Central Equatorial Africa

Du Chaillu’s stuffed gorillas and the savants from the British Museum

1994 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-245 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Lake Tanganyika ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Space Travel ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
The Press ◽  
Victoria Falls ◽  
Lay Public

It was 1861, a high point in the exploration of Africa. Livingstone had recently returned famous from the exploration of the Zambesi River and the discovery of the Victoria Falls; Burton and Speke had reached Lake Tanganyika; a new expedition supported by the Royal Geographical Society and led by Speke was being organized to determine the source of the Nile and its position relative to the Great Lakes; the origin of the Niger was being sought. Exploration was in the air, and as with space travel a century later, interest in it was sustained by the press. For the lay public, equatorial Africa had a heady romantic appeal: there was the Kingdom of Prester John; somewhere there were the Mountains of the Moon covered with snow in the heat of the Equator, there were dwarf-men, men with tails, Amazons, cannibals, unicorns, weird animals, curiosities without end.

scholarly journals Gravity measurements in East Africa

1936 ◽  
Vol 235 (757) ◽  
pp. 445-531 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Geological Time ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
Leave Of Absence ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

The elucidation of the structure and past history of the continent of Africa is beset with peculiar difficulties. A great part of it forms a plateau which has been above the sea since pre-Cambrian times ; thus the long series of stratified fossiliferous deposits left elsewhere in the course of geological time by the advance and retreat of the sea is absent. Instead, a great expanse of unfossiliferous gneisses and schists is exposed, overlain and intruded by a complex series of volcanic rocks, and split by a system of faults running from Lebanon to the Zambesi. It is thus not surprising that geological opinion is divided on many points, and especially on the origin and history of the Rift Valleys. A gravity survey of Eastern Equatorial Africa may therefore be expected to give information of great interest, for from the results we may obtain evidence as to the distribution of density in the outer layers of the earth, and from this we may hope to distinguish between the various hypotheses which have been put forward. Funds for the purpose of such a survey were generously provided by the Royal Society Government Grant Committee, the University of Cambridge, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Leverhulme Trustees ; and by the support of these bodies I was given the opportunity to carry out the work. For this support I am most grateful. I am also indebted to the University of Cambridge for two terms’ leave of absence, and I have had throughout the advantage of the support, encouragement, and assistance of Sir Gerald Lenox- Conyngham, F.R.S. Throughout the journey I was accompanied by my wife, whose assistance was invaluable.

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