Sentence examples for exploratory voyages from inspiring English sources

In order to structure his big, sweeping book about such issues, Mr. Holmes uses two exploratory voyages as bookends.

With a small ship, he made exploratory voyages up the Congo (1884 87) and Aruwimi (1900 02) rivers.

The epithet Navigator, applied to him by the English (though seldom by Portuguese writers), is a misnomer, as he himself never embarked on any exploratory voyages.

Motivated in part by Christian zeal, Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 1460) launched exploratory voyages along the western coast of Africa.

One of its central themes is the paradox that geographical theories of prodigious improbability still held sway in the era of the Enlightenment, inspiring exploratory voyages based on delusions.

Cursory exploratory voyages were made along the coast from the 15th to the 17th century, Walvis ("Whale Fish") Bay was used as a base for New England whaling ships in the early 19th century, and there were direct routes for traders and missionaries from Lüderitz and Walvis Bay into the interior.

The shipping line stresses that this is a "one-off sea trial," an exploratory voyage to look and learn and gather scientific data, Maersk spokesperson Janina von Spalding said.

The earliest recorded contact was in 1614, when the Dutch merchant Adriaen Block (c. 1567-1627) sailed up the Quinnitukqut on an exploratory voyage for the Dutch West Indian Company.

In the few decades between the glacial maximum and Vancouver's valiant exploratory voyage, glacier retreat scoured out five miles of terrain.

Born in Genoa, bred to the sea, Columbus won Spanish royal support for an exploratory voyage in hopes of finding a western passage to Asia.

Franklin entered the Royal Navy at age 14, accompanied Matthew Flinders on his exploratory voyage to Australia (1801 03), and served in the Battles of Trafalgar (1805) and New Orleans (1815).