United Kingdom: Sir Samuel White Baker (8 June 1821 - 30 December 1893), British explorer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. Photo by Lock & Whitfield (fl. 1856-1894), 1880. Baker held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, serving as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin (today's Southern Sudan and Northern Uganda) between 1869 and 1873, which he established as the Province of Equatoria. He is mostly remembered as the First European to visit Lake Albert and as an explorer of the Nile and interior of central Africa.

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