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Desert Explorers
Many early desert explorers wanted to be the first
to travel all the way across a desert. The first person
to travel across the Sahara Desert was a French
explorer called Ren6 Caill6. In 1828 he traveled
across the Sahara with camels because they can
walk a long way without food or water.
In 1887 a British explorer, FrancisYounghusband,
crossed the Gobi Desert in 70 days. The first women
explorers to cross the Gobi Desert were British
explorers, Mildred Cable, Evangeline French, and
Francesca F'rench, who traveled in a mule-cart in
about 19261
The first European explorers went to the coast of
Australia, but no one knew what was in the center.
In 1860 two British explorers, Robert Burke and
tVilliam Wills, and an Australian explorer called
John King, were the first explorers to cross Australia
from the south to the north. They brought camels
from India to help them.
The first woman explorer to cross the Australian l)cscrt
from east to west was an Australian explorer callcd
Robyn Davidson. In 1977 she traveled 2,735 kilometcrs
by camel from Alice Springs in central Australia
to the west coast.
In 1992,American scientists
discovered the'lost' ciw of
Ubar on a space radar
image. Then some
explorers led by a
British explorer,
Ranulph Fiennes,
went to find the
city in the desert
in Oman.