Sentence examples for exploration voyage from inspiring English sources

It was also the first time a Chinese ship on an Arctic exploration voyage had called into port in Iceland, where it permitted locals to board and visit.

New South Greenland, sometimes known as Morrell's Land, was an appearance of land recorded by the American captain Benjamin Morrell of the schooner Wasp in, during a sealing and exploration voyage in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica.

Named after the 14th century Ming dynasty emperor who sent Chinese ships on long exploration voyages, the system uses algorithms to search patents registered around the world to assess the novelty of a new claim.

Spanish exploration voyages to the far north were launched in 1774, 1775, and 1779.

Although noncommercial exploration voyages continued, especially by the Spanish Navy, the maritime fur traders made a number of significant discoveries.

Russian maritime fur trading in the northern Pacific began after the exploration voyages of Vitus Bering and Aleksei Chirikov in 1741 and 1742.

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Although the first scientific expedition to the New World did not occur until 1799, species discoveries and descriptions of marine organisms from the Caribbean started several years earlier from preserved fishes, coral skeletons, and mollusk shells collected during exploration voyages.

At present, the oceanographic vessel Polarstern from the Alfred Wegener Institute (Germany) has been carrying out exploration voyages for more than 20 years to the southern regions of the continent as well as Antarctica.

There emerged towards the end of the 19th century a mini-industry based around polar exploration, and no voyage was complete without its heroes' bestselling diaries and memoirs.

Vikings probably visited parts of the Canadian Arctic during the Middle Ages, but there are no records of exploration until the voyage in 1576 of the English mariner Martin Frobisher in search of the Northwest Passage to the Orient.