Evidence of occupation dating back 1800 years has been confirmed through archaeological expeditions done in the 1930s and the 1970s around the burial mounds that are located on the sand ridges in the eastern part of the county.

The existence and approximate location of the Gakkel Ridge were predicted by Soviet polar explorer Yakov Yakovlevich Gakkel, and confirmed on Soviet expeditions in the Arctic around 1950.

He is credited with organizing expeditions to observe the 1919 solar eclipse at Brazil and Principe, observations from which confirmed Einstein's theory of the effect of gravity on light.

However, in May 1919, a team led by the British astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington claimed to have confirmed Einstein's prediction of gravitational deflection of starlight by the Sun while photographing a solar eclipse with dual expeditions in Sobral, northern Brazil, and Príncipe, a west African island.

Will Steger ( born August 27, 1944 in Richfield, Minnesota ) is a prominent spokesperson for the understanding and preservation of the Arctic and has led some of the most significant feats in the field of dogsled expeditions ; such as the first confirmed dogsled journey to the North Pole ( without re-supply ) in 1986, the 1, 600-mile south-north traverse of Greenland-the longest unsupported dogsled expedition in history during 1988, the historic 3, 471-mile International Trans-Antarctic Expedition-the first dogsled traverse of Antarctica ( 1989 – 90 ), and the International Arctic Project-the first and only dogsled traverse of the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Ellesmere Island in Canada during 1995.

The next five years were disturbed by continued warfare with Bulgaria, against which Isaac led several expeditions in person.

Hendrik was a Greenlandic Arctic traveller and translator who worked on the American and British Arctic expeditions of Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Francis Hall, Isaac Israel Hayes and George Strong Nares, from 1853 to 1876.

When Isaac is deemed old enough to go on the yearly hunting expeditions with Major de Spain, General Compson, and Isaac's older cousin McCaslin Edmonds, he kills his first buck, and Sam Fathers ritualistically anoints him with its blood.

The belief that a route lay to the far north persisted for several centuries and led to numerous expeditions into the Arctic, including the attempt by Sir John Franklin in 1845.

Powell's expeditions led to his belief that the arid West was not suitable for agricultural development, except for about 2 % of the lands that were near water sources.

Bauls, bohemian by nature and belief, leave on grand expeditions, writing and performing music on their entire trip to earn a living and disseminating their notions of love and spirituality.

This belief grew in the 18th century and led to French expeditions such as those of Bouvet and Bougainville.

Although there are no proofs that the island of Seven Cities actually existed, the belief of their existence, some tentative expeditions and brief unconfirmed visual sightings of Atlantic islands, fostered legends during the European Middle Ages.

Because of his belief in the efficacy of small expeditions as compared to military-style ' sieges ', Eric Shipton was stepped down from the leadership of the 1953 Everest expedition, along with Andrew Croft, in favour of Major John Hunt --" I leave London absolutely shattered " he would write.

His ships were in a rather bad shape at the start of the expedition ( the VOC would use its good ships for trading voyages with sure profit, not for expeditions like Quast's ), and were getting even worse.

He was commissioned to write a continuation of the history of the academy, left uncompleted by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, and was also authorized to submit to the minister, Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, the best means of discovering the truth in regard to the figure of the earth, and proposed sending expeditions to the equator and the polar sea.

He was from 1866 Secretary to the Berlin Academy, and directed expeditions to measure the transits of Venus, in order to measure the distance from the earth to the Sun more accurately, and therefore be able to more accurately calculate the dimensions of the Solar System with greater precisions.

He flourished during a period when adventure-filled collecting expeditions were made to previously unknown corners of the earth.

Under the program, atmospheric, biological, earth, chemical, and medical sciences are studied by India, which has carried out 30 scientific expeditions to the Antarctic as of 14th October 2010 and is currently planning to build an additional research station in the region named Bharathi and thus India is all set to join the elite group of nine countries which have multiple bases in Antarctica.

In recent years, Amano has given numbers of lectures on his photography expeditions and his experiences in nature around the world, and he has advocated the importance of tree-planting programs to protect the earth ’ s environment.

Sargon is even recorded as having organised naval expeditions to Dilmun ( Bahrein ) and Magan, amongst the first organised military naval expeditions in history.

It is unlikely that Constantine's personal authority extended so far north, and while the attacks may have been directed at his allies, they may also have been simple looting expeditions.

King Chlothar I ( 558 – 561 ) ruled the greater part of what is now Germany and made expeditions into Saxony, while the Southeast of modern Germany was still under influence of the Ostrogoths.

Polar expeditions may use any time zone that is convenient, such as Greenwich Mean Time, or the time zone of the country they departed from.

The map is a result of a combination of the lines of roads and of the coasting expeditions during the first century of Roman occupation.

An exception is the record of the Akmana Gold Prospecting Company ’ s Field Party which carried out two expeditions from September to December 1929 and from mid February to the end of June 1930.

Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of sieges and expeditions by Mycenaean Greeks during the Bronze Age.

* Caspian expeditions of the Rus: The city of Barda, Azerbaijan is captured.

In the crucial story, "— And the Moon be Still as Bright ", it is revealed by the fourth exploratory expedition that the Martians have all but perished in a plague caused by germs brought by one of the previous expeditions.

This story is about later waves of immigrants to Mars, and how the geography of Mars is now largely named after the people from the first four expeditions ( e. g., Spender Hill, Driscoll Forest ) rather than after physical descriptions of the terrain.

Although the first European trade expeditions to China took place in 1513 and 1516 by Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, respectively, Andrade's mission is the first official diplomatic mission of a European power to China commissioned by a ruler of Europe ( Manuel I of Portugal ).

* 1336 — Possible first expedition to the Canary Islands with additional expeditions in 1340 and 1341, though this is disputed.

94 – 97 ) which describes the expeditions which Antigonus sent against the Nabataeans in 312 BC is understood to throw some light upon the history of Petra, but the " petra " referred to as a natural fortress and place of refuge cannot be a proper name and the description implies that the town was not yet in existence.

Much of what is known about pre-18th-century Native American cultures has come from records of Spanish expeditions.

There is some evidence that the Ming eunuch admiral Yishiha reached Sakhalin in 1413 during one of his expeditions to the lower Amur, and granted Ming titles to a local chieftain.

It is unlikely that Constantine's personal authority extended so far north, and while the attacks may have been directed at his allies, they may also have been simple looting expeditions.

Very little is known about these expeditions.

John Hanning Speke ( 4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864 ) was an officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa and who is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile.

He is renowned as the first European since the Norse expeditions to North America around AD 1000 to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay in 1524.

Holloway is presented as the consummate outdoorsman: He has successfully engaged in numerous expeditions which would have killed normal men, and is an expert in all forms of survivalist equipment, from spelunking gear to firearms.

In the mid-16th century, Spanish expeditions led by Hernando de Soto ( 1540 ) and Juan Pardo ( 1567 ) passed through what is now Sevier County, reporting that the region was part of the domain of Chiaha, a minor Muskogean chiefdom centered around a village located on a now-submerged island just upsteam from modern Douglas Dam.