expedition
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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
An Australian aviation crew has carried out a daring midwinter mission to rescue a US expedition member from a station in Antarctica in freezing temperatures and total darkness.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 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
Griffin in turn filed a defamation suit, claiming the woman’s account was wholly false and lambasting the New York Times’ reporting as a “fishing expedition aimed at smearing” her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
A judge ruled that Grace Garcia, because she was related to Eduardo Leones and had led the expedition to dig up the cabin boy’s treasure, was entitled to everything buried underneath the school.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
A recent study of "swim with wildlife" expeditions, external found influencers and photographers were the most likely to ignore safety instructions.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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
Oceanwide’s roots stretch back to the Plancius Foundation, a Dutch research program formed in the 1980s that conducted annual expeditions to Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago where Longyearbyen is located.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
Hattermann himself has spent hundreds of days living and working on Antarctic ice shelves during research expeditions.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2026
As I rushed to join my teammates, I looked down to see a queue of approximately fifty climbers from other expeditions moving up the ropes, too; the first of them were now immediately below me.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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