10 Facts About Roberto Ivens

Roberto Ivens was a Portuguese explorer of Africa, geographer, colonial administrator, and an officer of the Portuguese Navy.

Roberto Ivens was the son of Margarida Julia de Medeiros Castelo Branco and Robert Breakspeare Ivens.

Robert Breakspeare Ivens was a great-grandson of Thomas Hickling the American vice-consul in Ponta Delgada.

At school Roberto Ivens was known as "Roberto Ivens of the Devil" and he became known as an intelligent young gentleman.

Roberto Ivens joined the Portuguese Navy in 1870 at the age of 20 and attended Escola Pratica de Artilharia Naval in 1871.

In 1876, Roberto Ivens set out for the United States, bringing Portuguese products to Philadelphia for the Centennial Exposition.

Roberto Ivens went on an expedition into the provinces of Angola and Mozambique beginning on 11 May 1877, and studied relations between hydrographic basins in Zambezi.

Roberto Ivens went on an expedition on 21 June 1885 at Quelimane in Mozambique.

Portugal has ten streets named after Roberto Ivens including one in Ponta Delgada named Avenida Roberto Ivens.

Roberto Ivens was portrayed in the 500 Angolan escudo banknote issued in 1956.