The group, led by the legendary hunter-tracker R. J. Cunninghame, included scientists from the Smithsonian and was joined from time to time by Frederick Selous, the famous big game hunter and explorer.

The first island in the Vanuatu group discovered by Spaniards was Espiritu Santo when, in 1606, the Portuguese explorer, Pedro Fernández de Quirós, spied what he thought was a southern continent.

* January 17 – British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four become the second expeditionary group to reach the South Pole.

* March 3 – The International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, a group of six explorer for six nations, completes the first dog sled crossing of Antarctica.

The patient is, in fact, László de Almásy, a Hungarian desert explorer who was part of a British cartography group.

He joins Almásy's exploration group as another desert explorer, but is in fact on a secret mission of the British government ( military intelligence ) to make detailed maps of North Africa.

The first lengthy description of the island and its inhabitants is presented by the Russian explorer Fyodor Litke, whose ship Senyavin gave the island group of Pohnpei, Ant and Pakin its name.

In The Water Babies, Kingsley tells of a group of humans called the Doasyoulikes who are allowed to do " whatever they like " so gradually lose the power of speech, degenerate into gorillas, and are shot by the African explorer Paul du Chaillu.

Powell's group recommended any new community be named Escalante in honor of the explorer, even though the 1776 expedition never reached the remote valley.

Archeological studies have found that by 1300 CE, the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a distinct group who spoke Laurentian, built fortified villages similar to those visited and described by explorer Jacques Cartier in the mid-16th century.

With a small group of men, including explorer John McDouall Stuart as his draughtsman, Sturt pressed on across Sturt's Stony Desert and into the Simpson Desert, at which point he was unable to go further and turned back to the depot.

" After the destruction of that boat and the death of its captain, de Marbot joins the group led by famed English explorer Richard Francis Burton and accompanies him on the journey to the head of the River.

Around 1507, the explorer Mascarenhas discovered the island group which bears his name.

In the summer of 1798 Roderick McKenzie, the cousin of Alexander Mackenzie ( explorer ), met a group of Indians on the Height of Land Portage who showed him the Kaministiquia route.

Before the town of Sunnyside was even settled, explorer John Guy, in the year of 1612, “ to the north near the present Sunnyside he found a group of natives …” ( Rockwood, 1992 ) According to the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage website, “ The Beothuks are the aboriginal people of the island of Newfoundland.

Another Spanish explorer coming from the village of Cartagena de Indias named Juan de Vadillo commanded a second group of explorers and entered Cali on 23 December 1538, but he returned to Cartagena leaving many of his men behind including Pedro Cieza de León 1967.

An unidentified French explorer called this body of water " river des Illinois " after the group of native Americans that inhabited the area.

* Free Territory of Freedomland, a former country declared by Filipino explorer Tomás Cloma on a group of islands in the South China Sea.

1914 photograph by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen of a group of Ket around a campfire.

The first group of Europeans to see Tsawwassen was the expedition of Spanish explorer Jose Maria Narvaez Gervete in 1791.

Polar explorer and scientist Baron Eduard V. Toll paid a further visit to this island group in the spring of 1892, accompanied only by one Cossack and three natives.

The main building of group Rio Bec BThe Río Bec site was first mentioned by Austrian explorer Teoberto Maler at the end of the 19th century, though he never visited the site.

The Spanish explorer Jacinto Caamaño named the Gravina Islands group in 1792.

The Spanish explorer Jacinto Caamaño named the Gravina Islands group in 1792, in honor of Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli.

It was originally adopted by Antoine Lavoisier's group in 1795, and introduced into the metric system in France with its establishment in 1799.

Some other linguists, such as Antoine Meillet, also considered Macedonian dialects as comprising an independent language group distinct from both Bulgarian and Serbian.

In the 1830s, conductor François Antoine Habeneck, began rehearsing a selected group of musicians in order to perform the symphonies of Beethoven, which had not been heard of in their entirety in Paris.

By the time the group released their first album in 1986 the Parisian alternative music scene had taken flight, and Manu, his brother Antoine Chao, and friends such as Alain from Les Wampas formed Los Carayos to incorporate this sound with the rockabilly and punk styles of Hot Pants.

Still, rifts began to grow among band members during the port tour and the following year's train tour ; many band members, including Manu's brother Antoine, had left the group by the end of 1994.

Peggy Guggenheim also held group exhibitions of sculpture and collage, with the participation of the now classic moderns Antoine Pevsner, Henry Moore, Henri Laurens, Alexander Calder, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Constantin Brâncuşi, Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, George Braque and Kurt Schwitters.

This group included Alfred Garneau, Antoine Gerin-Lajoie, Achilles Frechette and others.

* The First generation ( 1420-1450 ), dominated by Dufay, Binchois and Antoine Busnois ; this group of composers is most often known as the Burgundian School.

When the group began performing as the L. D. s on Times Square street corners and the Staten Island ferry, the group was composed of brothers Stevie D., Antoine " T. C. D.

Tragedy struck the group three times with the passing of three of its members: Charles " Mercury " Nelson suffered a fatal heart attack in 1995 ; Antoine " T. C. D.

The author was also a fertile writer of vers de société (" society verses "), short satires, epigrams, etc., and he had a considerable reputation among the witty and ill-natured group also containing Nicolas Chamfort, Antoine de Rivarol, Louis René de Champcenetz, etc.

The group was active first from 1965 to 1966 as " Les Problèmes ", the backup band for French singer Antoine.

Basically, the group was to Antoine what The Band was to Bob Dylan.

He was selected as New York State Mr. Basketball and also named a McDonald's All-American and took MVP honors at the 1994 McDonald's All-American Game, scoring 24 points amongst a group that included future collegiate standouts and NBA pros Antoine Walker, Raef LaFrentz, Trajan Langdon, Chris Herren, and others.

A young man of the name of Antoine Agbepa ( currently known as Koffi Olomide ), whose friend were calling " Cheri O ", was the unknown writer of most of the hit songs of the group.

Antoine Faivre posits four fundamental elements, necessary conditions for a document, group, or movement to be eligible for consideration by scholars as esoteric.

After this recording, the group was diluted almost sporadically, with three members participating in other projects: Manu in Les Casse Pieds, Antoine with The Kingsnakes Carayos and with Santi.

Upon returning from South America, the tension between group members continued to grow and trumpeter Antoine left the band.

Around Ronsard, Du Bellay and Jean Antoine de Baïf there formed a group of radical young noble poets of the court ( generally known today as La Pléiade, although use of this term is debated ).

Mauduit was a member of the Académie de Poésie et de Musique, the secretive group founded by Jean Antoine de Baïf to promote musique mesurée à l ' antique, an attempt to recreate the rhetorical and ethical effect of ancient Greek music using modern French poetry and music.

The group was named for the French navigator Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni d ' Entrecasteaux who, in his ship the Espérance, passed through the area in 1792 while searching for his missing compatriot, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse.

Within a few years they were receiving important commissions, Antoine painting a group portrait of the aldermen of Paris in 1632.

Two distinct threads emerged, the first was encapsulated in Antoine Pevsner's and Naum Gabo's Realist manifesto which was concerned with space and rhythm, the second represented a struggle within the Commissariat for Enlightenment between those who argued for pure art and the Productivists such as Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova and Vladimir Tatlin, a more socially oriented group who wanted this art to be absorbed in industrial production.