High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Oudney (1790–1824) was a Scottish physician and African explorer.In 1817 he received his medical doctorate at Edinburgh. A few years afterwards he was appointed by the British government as consul for promotion of trade to the Kingdom of Bornu in sub-Saharan Africa. In early-1822 he departed from Tripoli with explorers Dixon Denham (1786–1828) and Hugh Clapperton (1788–1827), reaching Bornu in February-1823, and thus becoming the first Europeans to accomplish a north-south crossing of the Sahara Desert.

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