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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
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In 1829 he went to the See also: United States, but in 1830 See also: left for Anegada, one of the Virgin Isles
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He surveyed the See also: island at his own expense, and sent to the Royal See also: Geographical Society, See also: London, a 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
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He fulfilled his See also: mission with See also: great success, incidentally discovering the See also: Victoria Regia See also: lily
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In 1841 he returned to Guiana to survey the colony and See also: fix the boundary for the British See also: Government
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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
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On his return to See also: England he was knighted
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In 1848 he was appointed British See also: consul to St Domingo, and, in 1857, British consul to See also: Bangkok
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While holding these posts he continued his geographical surveys
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He retired from the public service in 1864, and died at Berlin on the 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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