Giuseppe Maria Giulietti

Giuseppe Maria Giulietti (28 December 1847 – 25 May 1881) was an Italian soldier, geographer and explorer.

He was born in a wealthy family in Casteggio, province of Pavia.

During the last of them, he was killed by the Afar tribes, together with Ettore Biglieri and thirty-one seamen of the ship Ettore Fieramosca in the southern Afar Depression.

Nesbitt and his two Italian associates as the Tio waterhole in 1928, who erected a cairn to mark the spot.

The explorers were then threatened by the local Afar who believed that they would then exact revenge for the deaths over a generation ago, and Nesbitt was able to talk their way out of certain death only with great difficulty.