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==British explorers==
* [[Captain George Forster Sadlier]] the first European to cross Arabia from east to west in 1819, publishing the book, ''[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023676254.0x00003f Diary of a Journey Across Arabia from El Khatif in the Persian Gulf to
* [[Sir Richard Francis Burton]] disguised himself as an Afghan doctor and performed Haj, writing about his travels in ''Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah'' in 1856.
* [[William Gifford Palgrave]] was the first European to cross Arabia from west to east in 1862.<ref name="Discovers Web:P"/>
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==External links==
*[http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200401/mapping.arabia.htm Mapping Arabia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103105312/http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200401/mapping.arabia.htm |date=2015-01-03 }}
*[http://www.ismaili.net/mirrors/11ismaili/ismaili.html Arabia - section on European explorers in Arabia]
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