Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun john_hanning_speke

1 sense of john hanning speke

Sense 1
Speke, John Speke, John Hanning Speke -- (English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864))
       INSTANCE OF=> explorer, adventurer -- (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))