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Speke

American  
[speek] / spik /

noun

  1. John Hanning 1827–64, English explorer in Africa.


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Anyone who was driving in the area near Speke Road on Tuesday and may have dashcam footage relevant to the investigation has also been urged to contact police.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2025

Mr Green said: "We have seen that work really, really successfully in places like Speke, Croxteth, Norris Green, and parts of Liverpool 8."

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2023

Burton and Speke together reached the one that Europeans would call Lake Tanganyika, but only Speke glimpsed the other — Nyanza, a.k.a.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2022

“River of the Gods” is a lean, fast-paced account of the almost absurdly dangerous quest by those two friends turned enemies, Richard Burton and John Speke, to solve the geographic riddle of their era.

From New York Times • May 15, 2022

The water he named Speke Bay is on the northeastern side, and where he crossed it about twelve miles wide.

From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler