Sentence examples for earliest sightings from inspiring English sources

One of the earliest sightings by a European-American was in 1806, when Zebulon Pike, mapping the southern boundary of the Louisiana Purchase, spotted the gap in what would later be named the Sawatch Range from the upper Arkansas River valley.

Knew there must be something wrong with my earlier sightings.

The early sightings were few, filed from around the country.

Fifteen British butterfly types have appeared weeks before they would have done a decade ago, with conservationists already comparing 2011 to 1893, a landmark for early sightings of the insects.

Buhs takes us on a long and windy tour of the early sightings, footprints, fur tufts, droppings and even abductions (at various times, Bigfoot was said to have kidnapped many women and children and at least one man).

We reported early sightings of the feature in test mode earlier this year.

Earlier sightings included a large group of boar grazing alongside tram lines, seemingly unperturbed by passing traffic.

A number of early sightings of debris raised hope that the crash location had been found, but each of the reports was later debunked.

The species first arrived in North America in 1941 (these early sightings were originally dismissed as escapees), bred in Florida in 1953, and spread rapidly, breeding for the first time in Canada in 1962.

Other sightings, however, remain unexplained.

Significant steps on the road to the pole were the discovery of lands south of Cape Horn in 1619, Captain James Cook's crossing of the Antarctic Circle in 1773, and the earliest confirmed sightings of the Antarctic mainland in 1820.