Percy Fawcett
(1867-1925)
British explorer and military officer
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Percy Harrison Fawcett DSO (18 August 1867 – during or after 1925) was a British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America. Fawcett disappeared in 1925 (along with his eldest son, Jack, and one of Jack's friends, Raleigh Rimell) during an expedition to find "Z"—his name for an ancient lost city which he and others believed existed in the jungles of Brazil.
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18 August 1867 Torquay, United Kingdom
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1925 (aged 57) Brazil
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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