European exploration of Africa 1840s, so that around the midpoint of the 19th century and the beginning of the colonial Scramble for Africa, the unexplored parts were now limited to what would turn out to be the Congo Basin and the African Great Lakes. This "Heart of Africa" remained one of the last remaining "blank spots" on world maps of the later 19th century (alongside the Arctic, Antarctic and the interior of the Amazon basin). It was left for 19th-century European explorers, including those searching for the famed sources of the Nile, notably John Hanning Speke, Sir Richard Burton, David Livingstone and Henry Morton
Edward Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby Edward Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby Edward Richard William Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby, (born 10 October 1962) is a British peer and landowner. Edward Stanley (informally "Teddy") otherwise Lord Derby was born to Hugh Stanley and his wife Rose Stanley ("née" Birch). He lives at Knowsley Hall near Liverpool, and also has a residence in London. Stanley inherited the earldom of Derby and other family titles in 1994, on the death of his uncle. He also inherited the Knowsley Estate, the Knowsley Safari Park and Stanley House Stud on Hatchfield Farm. He is President of the Liverpool Chamber of