Mungo Park
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Mungo Park may refer to:
- Mungo Park (explorer)Mungo Park (explorer)Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of the African continent. He was credited as being the first Westerner to encounter the Niger River.-Early life:...
- Mungo Park (golfer)Mungo Park (golfer)Mungo Park was a member of a famous family of Scottish golfers. He was born at Quarry Houses in Musselburgh, which was to become one of the three towns that shared hosting responsibilities for The Open Championship through the 1870s and 1880s. He learned golf as a boy, but then spent 20 years as a...
- Mungo Park (theatre)Mungo Park (theatre)Mungo Park is a Danish theatre in Allerød, 35 kilometers north of Copenhagen. Founded in 1985 under the name Dr Dante, it got its present name in 1992. It has been a sandbox for talent and has been important in the development of modern Danish theatre....
- Mungo Park MedalMungo Park MedalThe Mungo Park Medal is awarded by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in recognition of outstanding contributions to geographical knowledge through exploration and/or research, and/or work of a practical nature of benefit to humanity in potentially hazardous physical and/or social...
, an award - John Mungo ParkJohn Mungo-ParkJohn Colin Mungo-Park was a World War II Royal Air Force pilot and ace squadron leader. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1940, and again posthumously in 1941...
, WW2 fighter pilot - Mungo National ParkMungo National ParkMungo National Park is an isolated national park in south-western New South Wales, Australia, 876 km west of Sydney, in the Balranald Shire. It is part of the Willandra Lakes Region, a World Heritage Site covering 2,400 square kilometres, and incorporating seventeen dry lakes...