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explorers and return
To return, the crew would use the Earth Return Vehicle, leaving the Mars Habitat Unit for the possible use of subsequent explorers.
The explorers return to Straumsfjord, but disagreements during the following winter lead to the abandonment of the venture.
The explorers return to an Earth they no longer recognize, and in most cases, no longer fit in.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, European explorers wrote of being welcomed as kin by the aborigines who thought they were the Dutch, who had promised to return.
Upon his return, the Gateway Corporation decides to allow explorers ( called Prospectors ) to take trips on the mostly still-functioning ships.
Hume, in a letter dated 24 January 1825, ( immediately after the return of the explorers ), practically claimed to have been the leader of the party.
One group of these bonded explorers left their space metropolis and chose not to return to their creators and instead form their own independent state.
In return, the Kon-Tiki explorers reported on the quality and utility of the provisions.
In the novel, the explorers discover bacterial life on Mars and are abandoned due to political circumstances, and must fend for themselves if they want to return to Earth, thus highlighting many of the more robust features of Zubrin's plan for Mars.
Converting the water into enough power to take off, the explorers — along with the saboteur, a Frenchman named Bourne — return to Britain as the Franco-Prussian War breaks out on the continent.
A theatre showing a run of the film is seen by the explorers when they return to civilization.
On the return trip, however, the explorers discovered the stream and subsequently placed it on the map as a " new creek.
The return trip was severe ; with a loss of four expedition members, the explorers finally returned to Camp Alkmaar in mid-December.

explorers and Greenland
More geographically correct were Icelandic texts from about the same time, which presented a clear picture of the northern countries as experienced by Norse explorers: north of Iceland a vast, barren plain ( which we now know to be the Polar ice-cap ) extended from Biarmeland ( northern Russia ) east of the White Sea, to Greenland, then further west and south were, in succession, Helluland, Markland and Vinland.
During the 980s, explorers from Iceland and Norway arrived at mainland Greenland and, finding the land unpopulated, settled on the southwest coast.
Even in the mid 18th century, explorers ' maps clearly depicted Frisland as separated from Greenland by a wide strait.
Then others like the early European whalers, explorers and fur traders in Canada and North America trained dog-sledding skills from the natives of the Arctic region, and used with great success the Greenland dog when hunting, exploring and traveling across the Arctic regions.
Greenland dogs have been used on many expeditions by explorers, the most famous being Fridtjof Nansen.
Olaus Magnus ' account is illustrated by one of his woodcuts ( seen above ), resembling the southern Greenland coast where Hvidserk is seen, and the explorers combating Eskimo s.
His view may have been reinforced by some explorers who sighted land at higher latitudes than the tip of Greenland.

explorers and summer
The teller of this saga is uncertain whether the explorers remain here over the next winter ( said to be very mild ) or for only a few weeks of summer.
The strait was surprisingly elusive for early European explorers, presumably due to this persistent summer fog.
He spent that summer exploring Chesapeake Bay waterways and produced a map that would be of great value to Virginia explorers for over a century.
" Accounts show that the area was first visited by European explorers in the summer of 1608 with settlement beginning later that year.
The earliest French explorers were Father Marquette and Joliet in the summer of 1673.
This legend suggests a reason why when Russian explorers first discovered the bay, they did not find any settlement, as the Chukchi refused to settle in the region following the battle and only brought their animals to pasture in the summer.

explorers and with
The name Pueblo originated with the Spanish explorers, who referred to their particular style of villages.
From 1778 a display of objects from the South Seas brought back from the round-the-world voyages of Captain James Cook and the travels of other explorers fascinated visitors with a glimpse of previously unknown lands.
Frazer in England worked mostly with materials collected by others – usually missionaries, traders, explorers, or colonial officials – earning them the moniker of " arm-chair anthropologists ".
This period of time was also rife with instances of explorers and seafarers resorting to cannibalism for survival.
He incorporated the knowledge of Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Far East, gathered by Arab merchants and explorers with the information inherited from the classical geographers to create the most accurate map of the world up until his time.
When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese ( see Nanban period ), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the Emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the Shogun to secular European rulers, e. g. the Holy Roman Emperor.
Early European explorers noted the Chamorros ' fast sailing vessels used for trading with other islands of Micronesia.
Early explorers, including Jacques Cartier and numerous ships attempting to find gold on Baffin Island, were not provisioned with food for the journey home, and therefore used this species as both a convenient food source and bait for fishing.
The maps and journals of the explorers helped to define the boundaries during the negotiations leading to the Adams – Onís Treaty, which set the western boundary as follows: north up the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico to its intersection with the 32nd parallel, due north to the Red River, up the Red River to the 100th meridian, north to the Arkansas River, up the Arkansas River to its headwaters, due north to the 42nd parallel and due west to its previous boundary.
Portuguese explorers established contacts with people of the land later known as " Liberia " as early as 1461.
Lake Erie was the last of the Great Lakes to be explored by Europeans, since the Iroquois who occupied the Niagara River area were in conflict with the French, and they did not allow explorers or traders to pass through.
The Guyanese historian Walter Rodney describes mercantilism as the period of the world-wide development of European commerce, which began in the fifteenth century with the voyages of Portuguese and Spanish explorers to Africa, Asia and the New World.
A crew of explorers from Earth visit a Mars inhabited by reptilian mermen, savage dwarf-like beings with long, tentacled arms, bat-men and a race of civilized macrocephalic gnomes.
They have an advanced culture, but the human explorers are greeted with incomprehension and eventually the Martian civilisation is destroyed by human disease.
Intimate relations among Native American and Europeans were widespread, beginning with the French and Spanish explorers and trappers.
It was denominated the ' barking squirrel ', the ' prairie ground-squirrel ', etc., by early explorers, with much more apparent propriety than the present established name.
This African Iron Age culture came under great pressure with the arrival of the first Europeans, being in this case the Portuguese explorers.
The four explorers, with Seeker and Prill, use the floating police station as a vehicle to travel back to the explorers ' crashed ship.
In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ( something explorers had been attempting since the days of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson ), with six others in a 45-ton fishing vessel, Gjøa.
Advances in sailing technology from the Middle Ages onward enabled Arab, Chinese, Indian and European explorers to make longer voyages into regions with extreme weather and climatic conditions.
Some of these observations that scurvy was only associated with preserved foods, prompted explorers to blame scurvy upon some type of tainting or poison which pervaded tinned foods.
When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese ( see Nanban period ), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the shogun to secular European rulers, e. g. the King of Spain.

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