Michele Gortani is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Michele Gortani as Italian geographer, geologist and politician.
Michele Gortani was born at Lugo in 1883. His recorded nationality is Italy.
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 geographer, geologist and politician.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Michele Gortani died in 1966, aged 83. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as geographer, geologist and politician
