* Bicycle touring, a long-distance type of bicycling that includes expedition bicycling, which are typically long journeys over tough terrain

Unlike expedition touring bikes they typically sport 700c or 650b sized wheels.

Most adventure races are team events, with expedition length races typically requiring a set number of teammates ( usually four or five ) and requiring the teams to be co-ed.

The rest of the Union armies typically had no unified cavalry commands as such, other than a corps-sized command, under Pleasonton, that was briefly organized by the Department of Missouri to defend that state against Sterling Price's expedition in 1864.

They include " Kadeir Teyrnon " (" The Chair of the Prince "), which refers to " Arthur the Blessed ", " Preiddeu Annwn " (" The Spoils of Annwn "), which recounts an expedition of Arthur to the Otherworld, and " Marwnat vthyr pen " (" The Elegy of Uther Pen "), which refers to Arthur's valour and is suggestive of a father-son relationship for Arthur and Uther that pre-dates Geoffrey of Monmouth.

The Old Norse feminine noun víking refers to an expedition overseas.

The related Old Norse masculine noun víkingr appears in Viking Age skaldic poetry and on several rune stones found in Scandinavia, where it refers to a seaman or warrior who takes part in an expedition overseas.

William Cody's autobiography refers to a Pawnee Indian legend: " While we were in the sandhills, scouting the Niobrara country, the Pawnee Indians brought into camp some very large bones, one of which the surgeon of the expedition pronounced to be the thigh bone of a human being.

He refers to " the expedition your Excellency was pleased to entrust to my care ".

Available written records such as the Malay Annals refers to Selangor as Samarlingga during the rule of Seri Paduka Maharaja in Singapore ( 1301 – 1400 ) whereas some Chinese maps from the Ming Dynasty used by the Admiral Zheng He during his voyages of expedition between 1405 to 1433 refers to the Klang River and Selangor Darat ( or inland Selangor ).

The title refers to the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle, which set sail from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 under the command of Captain Robert FitzRoy, R. N ..

The same chronicle refers to Sanok two more times, informing, that in 1205 it was the meeting place of a Ruthenian princess Anna with a Hungarian king and that in 1231 a Ruthenian prince made an expedition to " Sanok-Hungarian Gate ".

In his novel The Riddle of the Sands ( 1903 ), Irish novelist Erskine Childers refers to the Dybbøl, when protagonists Davies and Carruthers encounter the ( then present ) German victory monument during a stop at Sønderborg on their Baltic yachting expedition.

The expedition, searching for deposits of valuable diamonds, discovered the legendary lost city of Zinj ( in Arabic Zinj or Zanj refers to the southern part of the East African coast ).

In point of historical fact, it was Vasco Núñez de Balboa's expedition which were the first Europeans to see the Pacific, but Keats chose to focus on Hernán Cortés ; " Darien " refers to the Darién province of Panama.

* Several poems of Taliesin: Kadeir Teyrnon (" The Chair of the Prince "), which refers to " Arthur the Blessed ", Preiddeu Annwn (" The Spoils of the Annwn "), which recounts an expedition of Arthur to the Otherworld, and Marwnat vthyr pen (" The Elegy of Uthyr Pen "), which refers to Arthur's valour and is suggestive of a father-son relationship for Arthur and Uthyr that pre-dates Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Overland travel or overlanding refers to an " overland journey "-perhaps originating with Marco Polo's first overland expedition in the 13th century from Venice to the Mongolian court of Kublai Khan.

The term katabasis can refer to a trip from the interior of a country down to the coast ( for example, following a river ), while the term anabasis refers to an expedition from a coastline up into the interior of a country.

Theophrastus is perhaps the first classical author to mention it, if the report that came back from his informant in Alexander's expedition refers to Commiphora wightii: " In the region called Aria there is a thorn tree which produces a tear of resin, resembling myrrh in appearance and odour.

In 736, the Aquitanian duke Hunald led a rebellion after his father Eudes's death, at which Charles responded by sending an expedition that captured and plundered Bordeaux again, while the Frankish commander didn't retain it for long, since he left south-east to wage war in Narbonnaise.

The archaeologist's natural death so long after the opening of the tomb, despite being the leader of the expedition, is the piece of evidence most commonly put forward by sceptics to refute the idea of a " curse of the pharaohs " plaguing the party that might have " violated " Tutankhamun's tomb.

In language similar to his description of the Mescalero Apache, Carleton ordered Carson to lead an expedition against the Navajo, and to say to them, " You have deceived us too often, and robbed and murdered our people too long, to trust you again at large in your own country.

The expedition conducted in 1960 observed ( with great surprise because of the high pressure ) at the bottom large living creatures such as a sole or flounder about 30 cm ( 1 ft ) long, and a shrimp.

The expedition had both scientific and exploration objectives ; the latter included a long journey south, in the direction of the South Pole.

Captain Wilder approaches under a white flag and has a short discussion with Spender during which the archaeologist explains that if he manages to kill off the expedition it may delay human colonization of the planet for a few more years, possibly long enough that the expected nuclear war on Earth will protect Mars from human colonization completely.

The expedition was designed to demonstrate that ancient people could have made long sea voyages, creating contacts between apparently separate cultures.

This expedition resulted in the revolt and capture of Milan, the Diet of Roncaglia that saw the establishment of imperial officers in the cities of northern Italy, and the beginning of the long struggle with Pope Alexander III.

According to Irish legend, as a young girl Ní Mháille wished to go on a trading expedition to Spain with her father, and on being told she could not because her long hair would catch in the ship's ropes, she cut off most of her hair to embarrass her father into taking her, thus earning her the nickname " Gráinne Mhaol " (; from maol bald or having cropped hair ).

In 1746 a British combined naval and military expedition to the coast of France – the first of a long series of similar ventures which in the end were derided as " breaking windows with guineas " – was carried out during August and October.

It had been a long and expensive expedition, costing 15 men and souring relations between Russia and her native peoples: but it had provided useful new ( though not perfect ) insights into the geography of Eastern Siberia, and presented useful evidence that Asia and North America were separated by sea.

The expedition set out in her name with five ships, each measuring 70 feet ( 21 m ) long bearing several sails and accommodating 210 men that included sailors and 30 rowers.

After being relieved by another expedition, the Stairs Expedition set out on the long return journey to Zanzibar.

According to the Greek and Roman traditions, this was the first expedition dispatched from Greece to found a colony, long before the Trojan War.

Upon his return from this long expedition exploring the shelf seas to the north of Siberia, he became the chair in meteorology at the University of Bergen in Norway.

Although the area had long been a popular watering hole for Native Americans and other prehistoric residents and nomads, including members of the more recently established Jumano, Apache, and Comanche tribes, the first European to view the site now known as Big Spring was probably a member of a Spanish expedition, possibly that of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, although the record of his travels cannot confirm his visit.

The expedition to the Naharina announced by Thutmosis I at the beginning of his reign may have actually taken place during the long previous reign of Amenhotep I Helck believes that this was the expedition mentioned by Amenhotep II.

At this time, a long hunting expedition led by Elisha Walden explored much of the Clinch and Powell River valleys.

However, his account of Alexander's expedition was preserved long enough to be mined as a direct or indirect source for other histories that have survived.

A fourth volume, also based on materials from the expedition to Arabia, was not published till 1837, long after Niebuhr's death, under the editorship of his daughter.

On 31 July Canning wrote to his wife: " The anxious interval between this day and the hearing the result of his expedition will be long and painful indeed.

A mythical creature or legendary artifact that leads to an adventure expedition, the long search for information, often seeming futile, an isolated civilisation hidden from the outside world thanks to its natural environment, the Ducks bringing new ideas with them but sometimes faced as threats, and the characters ending up defeated and empty-handed are all such themes.

Despite their failure to obtain their most sought-after prize, the expedition still returned with 280 live birds of 51 species, 33 of which were new to the zoo, although several of these died or escaped during the long trip back to New York.

Another issue of contention was compensation to the American colonies by Britain for the costs of the expedition against Louisbourg and the long occupation by American troops until the British Army finally took over.