* Emperor Leo I assembles a massive naval expedition at Constantinople, which costs 64, 000 pounds of gold ( more than a year's revenue ) and consists of over 1, 100 ships carrying 100, 000 men.

The expedition consists of leading scientists, as well as Tintin, Snowy and their friend, the alcoholic Captain Haddock ( ironically serving as president of the Society for Sober Sailors ), aboard the trawler Aurora.

In 1891, David Lindsey's expedition traveled across this area from north to south.

The first people of European ancestry to visit the Lewiston area were members of the David Thompson expedition of 1803.

Early in 1747 a second expedition laid siege to Fort St David but withdrew on the arrival of a British naval squadron in March.

On 24 April 1803, HMS Calcutta, commanded by Captain Daniel Woodriff, with Lieutenant-Colonel David Collins as commander of the expedition, left England accompanied by the store-ship Ocean.

Once the expedition arrives, David and Mark go diving to collect fossils from the lagoon floor.

The first film of indri was obtained by using tape lures, on an expedition forming the basis of David Attenborough's 1961 BBC series Zoo Quest to Madagascar

" The pamphlet, declined for publication with the official Scott expedition reports, commented on the frequency of sexual activity, auto-erotic behaviour, and seemingly aberrant behaviour of young unpaired males and females, including necrophilia, sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks and homosexual behaviour ," states the analysis written by Douglas Russell and colleagues William Sladen and David Ainley.

In 1825 he accompanied John Burner Biddulph on a trading expedition to Kuruman, the mission outpost on the edge of the Kalahari and home of Dr. Robert Moffat ( father-in-law of David Livingstone ).

Rennie appeared as adventurer Lord John Roxton in director Irwin Allen's 1960 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, a tale of a jungle expedition that finds prehistoric monsters in South America ; the film also starred Claude Rains, David Hedison, Fernando Lamas, Jill St. John and Richard Haydn.

His last summit occurred 12 days following the deadliest disaster in Everest history, supporting Swedish climber Göran Kropp on the same day as the David Breashears IMAX expedition crew.

During David Carnegie's expedition through the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts in 1896 he encountered some Aborigines who had among their possessions an iron tent peg, the lid of a tin matchbox and part of the ironwork of a saddle.

But, he approved an expedition, to be led by captain David Buchan, to recover a boat and other fishing gear which had been stolen by the Beothuk.

He then sent an expedition against Fort St David ( 1747 ), which was defeated on its march by the Nawab of Arcot, ally of the British.

An expedition to capture photographs of the falls was undertaken by Dr. David Rawlinson, Adam Ferguson, Matthew Farrell, Nicholas Wright, Tadhgh Knaggs, and Travis Hogg between 16 and 20 October 2008.

To coincide with the 100th anniversary of Scotts expedition to the South Pole, The Heart of the Great Alone was published with the Royal Collection. It brings together a selection of the astonishing photographs taken by Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley with commentary and narration by David.

Bennett raised the paper's profile on the world stage when he provided the financial backing for the 1869 expedition by Henry Morton Stanley into Africa to find David Livingstone in exchange for the Herald having the exclusive account of Stanley's progress.

Bennett had a strong commitment to international news, and financed Henry Stanley's expedition to find David Livingstone.

* David Carnegie led an expedition in 1896 from Coolgardie through the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts to Halls Creek, and then back again.

* 1979 Southwest Ridge SA by Martin Boysen ( UK ); Tom Frost, David Breashears, Greg Lowe, Jeff Lowe, Peter Pilafian, Jonathan Wright ( all USA ), and Lhakpa Dorje ( Nepal ) reached the summit on 22 April in blizzard conditions, as part of a well-financed climb-and-film expedition.

* 1800: Members of David Thompson expedition enter the pass.

His other works include a drama in verse, The House of Ravensburg ( 1877 ), an epic on David Livingstone's expedition in Africa, a Life of Byron ( 1890, Great Writers series ), an edition of Edmund Spenser's poems, a selection of Thomas Otway's plays ( 1888 ) for the Mermaid series, and critical papers on literature and philosophy.

* David Ogden Stiers as Governor Ratcliffe, the primary antagonist of the film who leads an expedition to Virginia to find gold and other riches ( which he wants to keep for himself ).

* A New Zealand television entertainment reporter, David Farrier of TV3 News took part in an expedition in August 2009 but came up empty-handed as well.

Around middle of the century, the sultanate had a close relationship with the British ; David Livingstone, for example, is known to have stayed in Stone Town in 1866 while he was preparing his final expedition into the interior of East Africa.

In 1819 – 1820, Johann Baptist von Spix and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius were engaged in an expedition to Brazil, and on their return to Europe, amongst other collections of natural objects they brought home an important set of the fresh water fish of Brazil, and especially of the Amazon River.

The first Norwegian expedition to Antarctica was led by Captain Carl Anton Larsen aboard the barque Jason in 1892.

Carl O. Sauer described Ponce de León's 1513 expedition in which he " discovered " Florida as simply " an extension of slave hunting beyond the empty islands.

Carl Linnaeus recorded the rules and a drawing of the board in his journal during his 1732 expedition to Lapland.

* 1817-1820-Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius expedition to Brazil.

The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskiöld for the expedition ship Antarctic which in 1902, under the command of Carl Anton Larsen, was the first vessel to navigate it.

In 1926 Carl contracted what has been described as dysentery but involved aggressive progression and aggressive bleeding from all orifices ( possibly undiagnosed Ebola ) he died on expedition.

Petermann, supported by Carl Ritter and Robert Bunsen, pleaded with the British government to let Heinrich Barth and Adolf Overweg join up with Richardson ’ s expedition to assure that geographical and scientific aspects which they might encounter were taken care of.

Discovered in February 1902 by the German Antarctic Expedition under Erich von Drygalski, who named it as his expedition ship in honour of Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Natterer was the zoologist on the expedition and was accompanied by other naturalists including Johann Baptist von Spix and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.

Both were zealously attached to the study of antiquities and the tastes and interests they held in common led them, in 1810, to join an expedition to Greece with Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, Carl Haller von Hallerstein, the German painter Jakob Linckh, and the then Austrian consul in Greece George Christian Gropius.

Inspired by the artistic work of Thomas Ender ( 1793 – 1875 ) and the travel accounts in the tropics by Austrian naturalists Johann Baptist von Spix ( 1781 – 1826 ) and Carl von Martius ( 1794 – 1868 ), Rugendas arrived in Brazil in 1821, where he was soon hired as an illustrator for Baron von Langsdorff's scientific expedition to Minas Gerais and São Paulo.

The course of the river was first discovered ten years later in 1896 after Dr Carl Lauterbach, a botanist, led an expedition organised by the Neu Guinea Kompagnie to find the headwaters of the Markham River.

An expedition of the explorer Carl Ryder wintered there in 1891 / 2 so that he could then explore Scoresby Sound.

The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus who observed it during his 1732 expedition to Lapland and compared the plant to Andromeda from Greek mythology.

The next morning, during a hunting expedition, Carl is shot by a redneck named Otis.

In February 1883 he accompanied Carl Humann on an expedition to Nemrut Dağ in historic Commagene, initiated by the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

The island was named by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897 – 99, under Adrien de Gerlache, for Carl August Wiencke, a Norwegian seaman who fell overboard and lost his life on the expedition.

Discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1957-58, who named it for Carl de Brouwer, a patron of the expedition.