French expansion challenged the Hudson's Bay Company claims, and in 1686 Pierre Troyes led an overland expedition from Montreal to the shore of the bay, where they managed to capture some areas.

In 1576, Frobisher managed to convince the Muscovy Company, an English merchant consortium which had previously sent out several parties searching for the Northeast Passage, to license his expedition.

On 3 June 1578, the expedition left Plymouth and, sailing by the English Channel, on 20 June reached the south of Greenland, where Frobisher and some of his men managed to land.

During his second expedition in 1256, he managed to conclude a favorable peace with Bulgaria, which may have plunged the latter into a crisis of leadership.

This expedition managed to re-establish Catholicism as the official religion of Béarn.

Cyrus managed to gather a large army by beginning a quarrel with Tissaphernes, satrap of Caria, about the Ionian towns ; he also pretended to prepare an expedition against the Pisidians, a mountainous tribe in the Taurus, which was never obedient to the Empire.

Only one expedition actually penetrated one of the strongholds of E. regnans at Mount Baw Baw but its search was rendered ineffectual by cold and snow and managed to measure only a single living tree — the New Turkey Tree: — before appalling conditions forced a retreat, Carder notes.

While Durrell only made £ 50 from British rights ( Faber and Faber ), he obtained £ 500 from the United States rights ( Viking Press ) for the book, and thus managed to raise money for a fourth expedition to South America in 1954.

Niebuhr studied mathematics for a year and a half before the expedition set out, and also managed to acquire some knowledge of Arabic.

By 1497 John Albert managed to gather 80, 000 men and was preparing for the expedition when Ștefan invaded Galicia and pillaged it.

Although the expedition never managed to return to Iran, being shipwrecked on the journey around Africa, it marked an important new step in contacts between Iran and Europe and Europeans began to be fascinated by the Iranians and their culture-Shakespeare's 1601-02 Twelfth Night, for example, makes two references ( at II. 5 and III. 4 ) to ' the Sophy ', then the English term for the Shahs of Iran.

Felton had been wounded in the duke's disastrously managed military expedition of 1627 against the French at La Rochelle and he held a personal grudge against his victim who, he believed, had corruptly withheld some of his pay and deprived him advancement.

Among these were men whom Plutarch describes as " cowards " which included some high-ranking spartiates who managed to avoid joining Cleombrotus ' expedition previously.

In December the expedition finally managed to capture two Spanish ships at Tenerife.

When permission was finally granted in 1979, an American-Nepalese expedition finally managed to gain the top,

Bjaaland was a skilled carpenter, and on the trip he managed to reduce the prefabricated sledges bought in Oslo ( Scott had bought the same type of sledges for his expedition, although never modified them ) from 88 kg to 22 kg, without reducing their strength notably.

The expedition by sea was admirably managed, and on the 10th of August the congressist army was disembarked at Quintero, about 20 km.

De Ojeda managed to escape and ran to the bay where he told a passing expedition of the murderous natives.

The Alliance scientists, after numerous tests, found that macaab mushrooms would destroy the implant in Triclops ' mind without causing any damage to his brain and so Luke Skywalker set out on an expedition to the planet Azrid where these mushrooms were found to grow, but the operation to destroy the implant never came to fruition as they found that Triclops had managed to escape from the DRPAC leaving only an impassioned letter to his son, Ken.

He led an expedition to the Hunter Valley in 1801 and up the Paterson River ( later named in his honour by Governor King ) and in 1804 led an expedition to Port Dalrymple, in what is now Tasmania, exploring the Tamar River and going up the North Esk River farther than anyone previously had managed to do.

The conditions were hard but nevertheless the expedition still managed to collect a significant amount of scientific data including a full year of meteorological observations.

At Manipur, the Burmese expedition force again managed to drive out the pesky Manipuri raja, who again fled into neighboring Cachar and Jaintia.

The Morgan brothers ' initial expedition was halted at a large lake, which they later managed to cross by coracle.

The expedition had hoped a ship would come by to take them back east, but instead endured a torturous winter of rain and cold, then returned east the way they came.

* The ship Gauss, used in the Gauss expedition to the Antarctic,

The depression is named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger, whose expedition of 1872 – 1876 made the first recordings of its depth.

Also during this time Almagro established a friendship with Vasco Núñez de Balboa, who during the time was in charge of Acla, with the intent of making a ship with the materials of the Espinosa expedition and later finish it in the " Great South Sea " as the Pacific Ocean first became known to the Spanish.

The British expedition commander, prompted by the loss of the gunboat, decided to abandon Jan Mayen until the following spring and radioed for a rescue ship.

* 1879 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette ( 1878 ) departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.

The Spanish ship San Pedro and two other vessels in expedition commanded by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi on January 9, discovered an island at 10 ° N where they went ashore and traded with natives and named it " Los Barbudos " ( possibly Mejit ).

An 1879 – 1881 expedition commanded by US naval officer George W. DeLong ended tragically when their ship the USS Jeanette, was crushed by ice.

They were eventually able to walk to their expedition ship MV Benjamin Bowring and boarded it on August 4, 1982 at position 80: 31N 00: 59W.

His insistence during the expedition on Royal Navy formalities had made for uneasy relations with the merchant navy contingent, many of whom departed for home with the first relief ship in March 1903.

This expedition, led by Adrien de Gerlache using the ship the Belgica, became the first expedition to winter in Antarctica.

In 1918, Amundsen began an expedition with a new ship Maud, which was to last until 1925.

In January 1922, during a later expedition, Shackleton died on board ship while moored in King Edward Cove, South Georgia.

* 1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

Challenger was named after HMS Challenger, a British corvette that was the command ship for the Challenger Expedition, a pioneering global marine research expedition undertaken from 1872 through 1876.

* The Southern Cross Expedition 1898-1900, an expedition to Antarctica led by Carsten Borchgrevink in the ship Southern Cross

A second expedition, one ship of about 40 men, led by Leif's brother Thorvald, sets out in the autumn after Leif's return and stays over three winters at the new base ( Leifsbúðir (- budir ), meaning Leif's temporary shelters ), exploring the west coast of the new land in the first summer, and the east coast in the second, running aground and losing the ship's keel on a headland they christen Keel Point ( Kjalarnes ).

Shortly afterwards, a ship captained by two Icelanders arrives in Greenland, and Freydis, daughter of Eric the Red, persuades them to join her in an expedition to Vinland.

* February 20 – Explorer James Weddell's expedition to Antarctica reaches latitude 74 ° 15 ' S and longitude 34 ° 16 ' 45 " W: the southernmost position any ship had reached before, a record that will hold for more than 80 years.

* September 6 – The Vittoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

She jumped aboard the ship soon after the expedition set out, invoking the protection of Artemis, whose virgin priestess she was.

Apollonius of Rhodes, on the other hand, claims Jason would not allow a woman on the ship because she would cause strife on the otherwise all-male expedition ( Argonautica 1. 769-73 ).

Drygalski led the first German South Polar expedition with the ship Gauss to explore the unknown area of Antarctica lying south of the Kerguelen Islands.