expedition
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Beginning in December 1913, at the age of 55, he co-led an expedition to chart a tributary of the Amazon that is today known as the Rio Roosevelt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Pete Hughes, a volunteer with the SRT joined the recent expedition and said: "It was all very exciting."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Guinness World Records recognized the expedition as the deepest scientific ocean drilling project ever completed.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
The Granma expedition marked the start of a guerrilla war that swept Batista from power and ushered in over six decades of socialism.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
The expedition was forced to dump supplies to lighten the loads.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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
Hattermann himself has spent hundreds of days living and working on Antarctic ice shelves during research expeditions.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2026
Between lengthy expeditions, Mr. Schaller oversaw research at Johns Hopkins and other institutions; for many years he headed global field science at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The company’s bread-and-butter river cruises remain as popular as ever, but Viking is also expanding into ocean travels and expeditions to more far-flung locales.
From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026
Until the Voyager expeditions, Neptune was thought to have two moons; Voyager found six more.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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