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.
The Society Islands were named for the Royal Society, which had sponsored the expedition under Capt.
A search expedition under Robert Mallary Berry surveyed Wrangel Island in 1881.
Not until 1580 did another English expedition, under Arthur Pet and Charles Jackman, attempt its passage.
The British government sent an expedition under Lord Elgin as plenipotentiary.
Quirós won the backing of King Philip III for an expedition under his own command.
In 1519 a third expedition, under the conquistador Hernán Cortés, clashed with the inhabitants of Cozumel Island.
An expedition under A.H. MacCarthy and H.F. Lambert on June 23 , 1925 was the first to reach the summit.
In 1892 a French expedition under Col. Alfred-Amédée Alfred-Amédée Doddsdefeatedns and esthelisheDahomeyanstorand.
In autumn 403, following skirmishes with a Spartan expedition under King Pausanias, a reconciliation was effected and democracy was restored.
The atoll was visited by the British mariner William Wake (1796) and was charted by a U.S. expedition under Lieut.
