Oman/UK: The explorer and Arabist Wilfred Thesiger (3 June 1910 - 24 August 2003) in Oman, c. 1946. Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, CBE, DSO, FRAS, FRGS was a British explorer and travel writer born in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. In 1933 Thesiger mounted an expedition, funded in part by the Royal Geographical Society, to explore the course of the Awash River. During this expedition, he became the first European to enter the Aussa Sultanate and visit Lake Abbe. Afterwards, in 1935, Thesiger joined the Sudan Political Service stationed in Darfur and the Upper Nile.
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