'Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs' (
April 14,
1831 -
June 2,
1896) was a
German geographer and adventurer who was the first
European to cross
Africa north to south. His route took him from
Tripoli through the
Sahara desert, over
Lake Chad, along the
Niger River to the
Gulf of Guinea from
1865-
1867. He was to the second European explorer to visit the region of the
Draa Riverin the south of
Morocco. In
1847 Rohlfs set out from
Dakhla Oasis intending to reack
Kufra. In February he was sixty miles north of
Abu Ballas (Pottery Hill) in the
Western Desert. Accompanied by
Karl Zittel and a surveyor called Jordans, Rohlfs and this colleagues experienced a downpouring of
rain - a rare occurrence in the desert, seemingly only happening every twenty years. Rohlf's team restocked and watered their camels and left a
cairn at the place he had named ''Regenfeld'' (Rainfield)
[1].
Notes
1. W.B. Kennedy Shaw, Long Range Desert Group, Greenhill Books 2000
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