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expedition

[ek-spi-dish-uhn] / ˌɛk spɪˈdɪʃ ən /




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Scientists collected their measurements during an expedition aboard the Royal Research Ship Discovery around Greenland and the Davis Strait in spring and summer 2022.

From Science Daily Aug. 18, 2026

The country also has three icebreakers and a support vessel currently on a monthslong scientific expedition north of Greenland.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

But testimony from surviving members of the 1996 expedition and the location of the last radio contact with the climbers have now led authorities to believe the remains belong to Morup.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

The avalanche struck on July 30, cutting off contact with the 10-member international expedition led by 43-year-old British-Nepali climber Purja on Broad Peak, one of the world's highest mountains.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

Many people believed that this was indeed the expedition that would bring home the prize, and Franklin and his men were sent into the Arctic aboard two extraordinary ships.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Dr Mark Evans, the collections manager at BAS, recently spotted the fossil amongst thousands of specimens brought back from expeditions to Antarctica over the decades.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

Rather than relying exclusively on archival institutional repositories, the studio executed specialized field expeditions to a variety of distinct global environments to gather raw primary telemetry like detailed images, LiDAR scans, weather data and sound.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

“These will be small, expensive and tightly controlled, more akin to early Antarctic expeditions than traditional tourism,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

Hattermann himself has spent hundreds of days living and working on Antarctic ice shelves during research expeditions.

From Science Daily May 10, 2026

She had to rest frequently on her foraging expeditions, and she realized that she was slowly starving.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer




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