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Benedict de Goes

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exploration of Pamirs

  • The Kunlun and Pamir mountain ranges.
    In Pamirs: Study and exploration

    …when the Portuguese Jesuit missionary Benedict de Goes reported on his travels through the area. As Konstantin Petrovich Kaufmann conquered successive Central Asian khanates for Russia during the mid-19th century, British representatives—such as John Wood in the 1830s—sought a suitable physiographic boundary between Russian Central Asia and British India. The…

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