Departing England with two ships in April 1791, Vancouver commanded an expedition charged with exploring the Pacific region.

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 ).

The expedition had been charged with exploring the Yellowstone region, but encountered difficulties crossing mountain passes due to snow.

In 1848 Nevelskoy led the expedition in the Russian Far East, exploring the area of the Sakhalin and the outlet of the Amur River.

General Mariano Vallejo stated that the river was named Uba by an exploring expedition in 1824 because of the quantities of wild grapes ( uvas silvestres in Spanish ) which they found growing on its banks.

John C. Frémont camped at Goshen Hole on July 14, 1843, and recorded that name in his journal, on his exploring expedition on the Oregon Trail.

Upon his return from this long expedition exploring the shelf seas to the north of Siberia, he became the chair in meteorology at the University of Bergen in Norway.

An expedition under Pedro Fages was said to have run out of provisions while exploring the area, and been fed pinole by a local village, and so the Spaniards named their camp “ El Pinole ”.

Giles didn't attempt a regular exploring expedition until 1872, when with two other men he left Chambers pillar, South Australia ( now in the Northern Territory ), around the middle of August and traversed much previously untrodden country to the north-west and west.

From October 1875 to January 1876 he was exploring the hinterland of Port Moresby under Octavius Stone, and in April 1876 went on another expedition under Luigi D ' Albertis for over 400 miles up the Fly River on the SS Ellengowan.

After having read Hussein Bey's " Lost Oasis " he spent one such expedition in 1929 using a Ford Model A automobile and two Ford lorries exploring the vast swathe of desert from Cairo to Ain Dalla which was an area reputed to contain the mythical city of Zerzura.

In 1857 the Philosophical Institute formed an Exploration Committee with the aim of investigating the practicability of fitting out an exploring expedition.

" The Burke and Wills exploring expedition: An account of the crossing the continent of Australia from Cooper Creek to Carpentaria, with biographical sketches of Robert O ' Hara Burke and William John Wills.

Hovell was away five months on this expedition and afterwards did no more exploring.

* Calvert Expedition, 1896 exploring expedition in north-central Western Australia

First serving as part of an exploring and surveying expedition in Death Valley, California in 1891, he then traveled to Alaska to spend the next two years in work for the United States Department of Agriculture.

In 1858, when Palliser's expedition was exploring a mountain pass near the continental divide of the Canadian Rockies, one of Hector's packhorses fell into the river.

He reported on the Botany of the Mexican Boundary Survey ( 1859 ), that of the expedition upon the Colorado River under Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives ( 1861 ), and, in association with Asa Gray, the botanical collections of the Wilkes exploring expedition.

Upon this background, he was given command of the government exploring expedition "... for the purpose of exploring and surveying the Southern Ocean,.

In 1892, in the course of an exploring and mountaineering expedition undertaken under the auspices of the Royal Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the British Association, he made an ascent of a subsidiary summit of Baltoro Kangri, claiming a world altitude record with a height of 23, 000 ft ( 7, 010 m ).

Adriaen ( Aerjan ) Block ( c. 1567 – April 27, 1627 ( buried )) was a Dutch private trader and navigator who is best known for exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages from 1611 to 1614, following the 1609 expedition by Henry Hudson.

Nevertheless, Díaz returned to the coast of Yucatán in April 1518, in an expedition led by Juan de Grijalva, with the intent of exploring the newly discovered lands.

In 1602, the government of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands chartered the Dutch East India Company ( Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie ), or VOC with the mission of exploring it for a passage to the Indies and claiming any uncharted areas for the United Provinces, which led to several significant expeditions which led to the creation of the province of New Netherland.

In 1765, a Saône exploring and raiding party led by Chief Standing Bear discovered the Black Hills ( the Paha Sapa ), then the territory of the Cheyenne.

Reports from exploring parties led by Lieutenant James Tuckey and surveyor George Harris described strong currents, sandy soil, poor timber, swampy land and scarce fresh water.

In 2007, Werner Erhard presented a talk exploring the link between integrity, leadership, and increased performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for Public Leadership, led a course on integrity at the 2007 MIT Sloan School of Management ’ s SIP ( Sloan Innovation Period ), and spoke at the Harvard Law School program on Corporate Governance.

Huntington is named after Huntington Creek, and Huntington Creek was probably named for William, Oliver, and Dimick Huntington, brothers who led exploring parties into the region during the 1850s.

Other expeditions include that of Philipp von Hutten ( 1541 – 1545 ), who led an exploring party from Coro on the coast of Venezuela ; and of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, the Governor of El Dorado, who started from Bogotá ( 1569 ).

* Philippines: Police say Khalid Shaikh Mohammed led a cell aiming to blow up planes in ' 95 L. A. Times article exploring Operation Bojinka.

Nicollet led three expeditions exploring the Upper Mississippi, mostly in the area that is now Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.

* 1816 — Russian exploring expedition led by Captain Otto von Kotzebue visits California with naturalists Adelbert von Chamisso, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, and artist Louis Choris.

He led an expedition in 1891 exploring the flora and fauna of California and particularly Death Valley.

" Such exploring missions required measures for security that could be solved with small private, armed contingents recruited mainly in the Sudan and led by adventurous former military personnel of lower ranks.

In the early 1960s, Georgian speleologists led by L. Maruashvili began exploring caves in the high sector of the massif.

The new epoch in cave explorations in the Arabika massif began in 1980 when the Kiev Speleological Club, led by Alexander Klimchouk, started exploring caves there.

) led by Yury Kasjan made a major breakthrough in Krubera Cave by discovering and exploring two branches behind the windows at a depth of 220 – 250 m. These branches stretched in two different directions.

The deepest point in this branch has been reached at − 1, 841 m. In the Nekujbyshevskaya Branch, a group led by Kyryl Markovskoy continued exploring new leads and extended the depth of this branch to − 1, 293 m.

During the summer of 1961, he led an expedition to Badakhshan and Katagan ( North ¬ eastern Afghanistan ) with a geological and geophysical program, and in the summer of 1962 he led another expedition to the Karakorum Range, exploring geologically the upper Hunza valley and the Chogo Lumba, the Basha and the Hoh Lumba glacier valleys.

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.

This has led to the club exploring the option of redeveloping the Western Terraces instead, however this would require the demolition of six houses and the re-routing of a public right of way.

To reduce the risk of becoming lost, it is necessary to memorise the appearance of key navigational points in the cave as they are passed by the exploring party.

The popularly reported European discovery of the okapi in 1901, earlier hinted at but unseen by Henry Morton Stanley in his travelogue of exploring the Congo, later became the emblem for the now defunct International Society of Cryptozoology.

They do this by lowering tensions, improving communications, interpreting issues, providing technical assistance, exploring potential solutions and bringing about a negotiated settlement.

Dwight developed a keen and enduring interest in exploring outdoors, hunting / fishing, cooking and card playing from an illiterate named Bob Davis who lived by the river.

Vancouver wrote of Whidbey's efforts: " This determined shore they had been exploring to be an island, which, in consequence of Mr. Whidbey ’ s circumnavigation, I distinguished by the name of Whidbey ’ s Island: and this northern pass, leading into Bay, Deception Passage ".

Probably the most ambitious and perhaps significant work to date is Ingwe ( 2003 – 2009 ) by Georges Lentz ( written for Australian guitarist Zane Banks ), a 60-minute work for solo electric guitar, exploring that composer's existential struggles and taking the instrument into realms previously unknown in a concert music setting.

Hence feminism influences the film industry by creating new ways of exploring and looking at masculinity / femininity and male / female roles.

Researchers are addressing this problem by exploring corrosion-resistant materials for components as well as fuel cell designs that may increase cell life without decreasing performance.

Since 2001, 40 non-natural amino acids have been added into protein by creating a unique codon ( recoding ) and a corresponding transfer-RNA: aminoacyl – tRNA-synthetase pair to encode it with diverse physicochemical and biological properties in order to be used as a tool to exploring protein structure and function or to create novel or enhanced proteins.

The Brontës ' fiction is seen by some feminist critics as prime examples of Female Gothic, exploring woman's entrapment within domestic space and subjection to patriarchal authority and the transgressive and dangerous attempts to subvert and escape such restriction.

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) recalled the Vietnam war ; George A. Romero satirized the consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ); Canadian director David Cronenberg featured the " mad scientist " movie sub-genre by exploring contemporary fears about technology and society, and reinventing " body horror ", starting with Shivers ( 1975 ).

An early work, She ' iltot (" Questions ") by Achai of Shabcha ( c. 752 ), discusses over 190 Mitzvot — exploring and addressing various questions on these.

But they disagree about whether manned missions make a useful scientific contribution — some think robotic probes are cheaper and safer, while others argue that either astronauts advised by Earth-based scientists, or spacefaring scientists advised by Earth-based scientists, can respond more flexibly and intelligently to new or unexpected features of the region they are exploring.

Tirpitz, in 1899 was already exploring the possibilities for extending the battleship total to 45, a target which rose to 48 by 1909.

When the dummy monster broke loose from the Pisces during filming and sank to the bottom of the loch, Vickers executives capitalised on the loss and ' monster fever ' by allowing the sub to do a bit of exploring.

In the social sciences theoretical frameworks such as Racial formation theory and Critical race theory investigate implications of race as social construction by exploring how the images, ideas and assumptions of race are expressed in everyday life.

In such cases, only a very small subset of paths will transport energy ; Metropolis light transport is a method which begins with a random search of the path space, and when energetic paths are found, reuses this information by exploring the nearby space of rays.

Instead, the game and rules focused on parties of characters exploring the Ringworld itself, and, despite its vast size ( with a surface area larger than that of all of Known Space's inhabited planets put together ), many who bought the game felt limited by this one world setting.

Video art's intentions are varied, from exploring the boundaries of the medium itself ( e. g., Peter Campus, Double Vision ) to rigorously attacking the viewer's expectations of video as shaped by conventional cinema ( e. g., Joan Jonas, Organic Honey's Vertical Roll ).

However, little rigorous research in English has gone into exploring the relationship between the linguistic worldview and the transformation and maintenance of this worldview by individual speakers.

were studied by Lipscomb's group in a collaboration, which included Metabasis Therapeutics, Inc., acquired by Ligand Pharmaceuticals in 2010, exploring the possibility of finding a treatment for type 2 diabetes, as the MB06322 inhibitor slows the production of sugar by fructose-1, 6-bisphosphatase.