The first European to visit the community was the explorer Samuel Baker who traveled there in 1863 from Gondokoro on the White Nile, crossing the Kinyeti River en route. From Tarrangolle he observed the peak of Jebel Lafeet in the Lafit mountains to the north, and unnamed mountains to the south which he later crossed - the Acholi range of the Imatong Mountains. In 1881 Emin Pasha also visited Tirangole.