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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 358 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHOMBURGK, See also:SIR See also:ROBERT See also:HERMANN (1804-1865) , See also:British traveller, was See also:born at See also:Freiburg, Prussian See also:Saxony, on the 5th of See also:June 1804, the son of a See also:Protestant See also:minister. In 1829 he went to the See also:United States, but in 1830 See also:left for Anegada, one of the Virgin Isles. He surveyed the See also:island at his own expense, and sent to the Royal See also:Geographical Society, See also:London, a See also:report which created such an impression that, in 1835, he was entrusted by that See also:body with the conduct' of an exploring expedition to British See also:Guiana. He fulfilled his See also:mission with See also:great success, incidentally discovering the See also:Victoria Regia See also:lily. In 1841 he returned to Guiana to survey the See also:colony and See also:fix the boundary for the British See also:Government. The result was the provisional boundary between British Guiana and See also:Venezuela known as the " Schomburgk See also:Line," for which see the articles on those two countries. On his return to See also:England he was knighted. In 1848 he was appointed British See also:consul to St Domingo, and, in 1857, British consul to See also:Bangkok. While holding these posts he continued his geographical surveys. He retired from the public service in 1864, and died at See also:Berlin on the See also:lath of See also:March 1865. He was the author of a Description of British Guiana and a See also:History of Barbadoes.

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