Libya: The Castle of Morzouk. Watercolour painting by George Francis Lyon (23 January 1796 - 8 October 1832), 1821. George Francis Lyon was a rare combination of Arctic and African explorer. By all accounts a fun loving extrovert, he also managed to be a competent British Naval Officer, Commander, explorer, artist and socialite. While not having a particularly distinguished career, he is remembered for the entertaining journals he kept and for the watercolour paintings he completed in the Sahara and the Arctic.

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