voyagers

But the Quest’s discovery didn’t come easily for the 23 voyagers who took part in the expedition to find it.

During the 18th century C.E., voyagers roving the Orinoco River—a vast watery highway stretching across the northeastern corner of South America—reported dozens of mysterious rock engravings of snakes crowning the rocky hilltops.

They were six voyagers rowing against the wind, against waves studded with shards of ice—it was, perhaps, the hardest way to get to Antarctica.

By contrast, researchers believe breadfruit and kukui nut — now the state tree of Hawaii — were among the many edible plants Polynesian voyagers brought around 1,000 years ago.

The Polynesian voyagers were the first people to settle in New Zealand, hundreds of years before Europeans explorers started sailing into the area in the 1640s.