Hiram Bingham III is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Hiram Bingham III as American academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politician (1875–1956).
Hiram Bingham III was born at Honolulu in 1875. His recorded nationality is United States.
Nineteenth-century exploration turned inland - Africa, Asia and Australia - and was entangled from the start with empire, missions and the geographical societies that funded it.
He is recorded as politician, explorer and archaeologist.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Hiram Bingham III died in 1956, aged 81. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as politician, explorer and archaeologist
