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

He explained that since the Apollo program in the 1960s and 1970s, robotic explorers have mapped the far side of the Moon.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

The local museum in Barentsburg focuses on Russia’s centurieslong presence on the archipelago, which Moscow says predates even the European explorers credited with discovering the land in the late 16th century.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

When European explorers got wind of it, they declared it legendary: a unicorn.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver