In fact, Google Maps should have an "Explorers section" where you could see famous expedition routes from Lewis and Clark's to Shackleton's voyage to Antarctica.
Exhibits here retrace the expedition's route, focusing on the corps' contacts with Indian tribes of the Plains and Pacific Northwest.
Part of a Wild Frontiers expedition, the route also covers the empty, rarely visited east of the country taking in key archaeological sites and abandoned cities. Wild Frontiers (020-7736 3968) offers the nine-day full-board tour from £1,695pp (land only).
Our plan was to visit some of the lesser-known, out-of-the-way sites on the Lewis and Clark Trail, and to see for ourselves how much of the country along the expedition's route still looked more or less as it had when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark described it in their journals.
The expedition's route was the subject of the first map to be prepared according to Wright's projection, which was published in Certaine Errors in 1599.
Although there were hostile protests on the expedition's route through County Mayo there was no violence, and the crops were harvested without incident.
One sculpture depicts Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea, with a map of their expedition's route on the reverse; the other shows pioneers and a covered wagon, with a map of the Oregon Trail on the reverse.
They were the British Arctic Air Route Expedition led by H.G. Watkins, the German Greenland Expedition under Alfred Wegener, and the University of Michigan Expedition under W.H. Hobbs.
In 1990 91, he led the UNESCO international scientific teams for the Desert Route Expedition of the Silk Road in China and the Steppe Route Expedition of the Silk Road in the Soviet Union.
The sandy path, named after the Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza, who led an expedition along this route in 1775, meanders alongside the Santa Cruz River.
