Sentence examples for Extensive expedition from inspiring English sources

Navy officers in Washington said a similar or even more extensive expedition would be dispatched to the Arctic again some time next year.

Finally, Alexander von Humboldt, a German naturalist and explorer, commanded the most extensive expedition, exploring all the Americas between 1799 and 1804.

For Swedish readers he has compiled the experiences and results from this more extensive expedition in a book rich in information, I Celebes Obygder, which was published in two volumes in Stockholm in 1921.

As a direct result of Edwards's actions, the Mexican government authorized an extensive expedition, conducted by General Manuel de Mier y Terán, to inspect the Texas settlements and recommend a future course of action.

In an extensive sleuthing expedition that looked back nearly 20 years, two collaborating research teams contend that they have evidence that xenotropic murine leukemia virus related virus (XMRV) resulted from the chance recombination of pieces of two mouse viruses in lab experiments and that the connections to human disease are spurious.

In an extensive sleuthing expedition that looked back nearly 20 years, two collaborating research teams contend they have evidence that xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) resulted from the chance recombination of pieces of two mouse viruses in lab experiments and that the connections to human disease are spurious.

The Russians explored the Arctic Ocean on a large scale by means of floating scientific stations and extensive airborne expeditions that made numerous landings on the ice to take observations.

The novelist also went on extensive butterfly-hunting expeditions across America while he was working on his masterpiece, "Lolita".

The expedition disclosed extensive areas of land for future development in New South Wales and South Australia.

In addition to describing the taxonomic and metabolic features of this microbial community on mussels, we also tested the similarity and differences with other recently described marine microbial assemblages that are public, including those of coastal Georgia [29], 4 tropical Pacific Ocean seawater samples in the Line Islands [19], and the extensive Global Ocean Sampling Expedition [13].

Between 1913 and 1917, for example, the American Museum of Natural History, the American Geographical Society, and the University of Illinois had helped finance his explorations of northern Greenland, which disproved the existence of "Crocker Land". His expeditions included extensive work in geology, botany, ornithology, meteorology, ethnology, and anthropology.