explorers

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Sardines, tuna and abalone have all at some point been abundant along the California Current, a 1,900-mile stretch of the Pacific that has been ripe for explorers and fishers for centuries.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

But it was a chance to capture the imaginations of new generations of future space explorers, while also calling back to the one-giant-step-for-mankind sense of awed enormity that characterized the 20th-century Space Race.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

The presence of the Catholic Church in Angola dates back to the late 15th Century, when Portuguese explorers and missionaries arrived along the Angolan coast.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

European explorers landed on Easter Island in the 18th century.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Images of the moon and the rocket and the explorers shimmered across the old man’s face and onto the sea of his beautiful drawings, tacked to the wall behind him.

From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick