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The most famous of the explorers was John Charles Frémont ( 1813 – 1890 ), a commissioned officer in the Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers with a talent for exploration and a genius at self-promotion that gave him the sobriquet of " Pathmarker of the West " and led him to the presidential candidate of the new Republican Party in 1856.
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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.
The most famous of the explorers was David Livingstone, who explored southern Africa and traversed the continent from the Atlantic at Luanda to the Indian Ocean at Quelimane.
Mariners and explorers for most of history struggled to determine precise longitude.
Such work firmly established his place in history as one of the first and most important explorers of the microscopic world.
He is one of the most famous and celebrated explorers from the Discovery Ages, being the first European to reach India through sea.
He settled permanently in present-day Mozambique, where he spent most of his life, and his work was followed by other Portuguese explorers, sailors and traders.
The curvature of the holes is so subtle that explorers from either surface do not notice the transition until after it is already made, causing quite a shock for most.
The explorers return to an Earth they no longer recognize, and in most cases, no longer fit in.
The Russian explorers and raiders of the 1650s set up a number of more or less fortified camps ( ostrogs ) on the Amur ; most of them were in use for only a few months, and later destroyed.
The plant was later spread by Portuguese and Spanish explorers to Africa, the Philippines and most of the West Indies, being now cultivated worldwide.
Unlike most previous explorers, Peary studied Inuit survival techniques, built igloos, and dressed in practical furs in the native fashion both for heat preservation and to dispense with the extra weight of tents and sleeping bags when on the march.
Considering that Cartier made three voyages of exploration in dangerous and hitherto unknown waters without losing a ship, and that he entered and departed some 50 undiscovered harbors without serious mishap, he may be considered one of the most conscientious explorers of the period.
Baltic Germans played leading roles in the society of what are now Estonia and Latvia throughout most of the period from 13th to mid-20th century, with many of them becoming noted scientists or explorers.
The Clackamas Indians once occupied the land that later became Lake Oswego, but diseases transmitted by European explorers and traders killed most of the natives.
Because the Hopi were the tribe from whom the Spanish explorers first learned of the god, their name is the one most commonly used.
The clusters of cottonwood trees Spanish explorers saw more than 200 years ago inspired Los Alamitos ' name, but it is the sugar beet that figured most prominently in the area's later history.
On Friday, May 19, 1690, two days before the Sunday of the Holy Trinity, Alonzo de Leon arrived at this river and following the custom of the Spanish explorers of the day, named the river after this religious Holy Day – “ Rio de la Santissima Trinidad ” or the River of the most Holy Trinity .”
This was because most of the explorers, soldiers, fur traders and settlers who had come to New France were men.
Other notable explorers include Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti ; George Forrest ; Joseph Francis Charles Rock, who from 1922 – 1949 spent most of his time studying the flora, peoples and languages of southwest China, mainly in Yunnan ; and Peter Goullart, a White Russian who studied Naxi culture and lived in Lijiang from 1940 to 1949.
By the 19th century, when Western explorers had surveyed most of the Earth's surface, this option was lost to Western culture.
Although the term " Coureurs des Bois " is most strongly associated with those who engaged in the fur trade, the most prominent coureurs des bois gained fame as explorers.
Many of the early explorers would most likely have used aboriginal guides, but they do not appear to have given them credit.
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