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According to Google Maps, it would take a mere 96 hours to drive from Dublin’s O’Connell Bridge to Timbuktu, with the help of a few ferry crossings.

Despite Laing being the first European to set foot in Timbuktu, the fame and fortune, 10,000 Francs and the Legion of Honour would fall to Caillié, the French explorer who came behind.

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Western scientists only cottoned on in 1978. 15. Located on maps eight miles north of the Niger river, the current compass reference for Timbuktu is 16° 45' N, 3° 4' W, in Mali's sixth region.