Schomburgk at Lake Amucu

In 1840 the explorer Robert Schomburgk visited Lake Amucu in the Rupununi and argued it was the kernel of the Lake Parime legend, a remnant of a once larger inland water.

1840 CE · 2.27, -59.60 · status: explained

The account

Schomburgk surveyed British Guiana's borders and also reached Mount Roraima. Some modern geologists think a large lake did exist in the region in prehistoric times.

Connections in the atlas

• Humboldt dismisses Lake Parime
• First ascent of Roraima, the 'lost world'
• Lake Parime on the maps

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Robert Hermann Schomburgk