John Dundas Cochrane

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John Dundas Cochrane, nicknamed the voyageur pédestre in France, was a Scottish traveller and explorer. The brother of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, he crossed, on foot, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Russia and Asia to Kamchatka, dying in 1825 at Valencia in Colombia while travelling through South America, again by foot.

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Cochrane

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