Sentence examples for extensive expedition from inspiring English sources

Finally, Alexander von Humboldt, a German naturalist and explorer, commanded the most extensive expedition, exploring all the Americas between 1799 and 1804.

As a direct result of Edwards's actions, the Mexican government authorized an extensive expedition, conducted by General Manuel de Mier y Terán, to inspect the Texas settlements and recommend a future course of action.

In an extensive sleuthing expedition that looked back nearly 20 years, two collaborating research teams contend that they have evidence that xenotropic murine leukemia virus related virus (XMRV) resulted from the chance recombination of pieces of two mouse viruses in lab experiments and that the connections to human disease are spurious.

In an extensive sleuthing expedition that looked back nearly 20 years, two collaborating research teams contend they have evidence that xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) resulted from the chance recombination of pieces of two mouse viruses in lab experiments and that the connections to human disease are spurious.

The Russians explored the Arctic Ocean on a large scale by means of floating scientific stations and extensive airborne expeditions that made numerous landings on the ice to take observations.

The novelist also went on extensive butterfly-hunting expeditions across America while he was working on his masterpiece, "Lolita".

The expedition disclosed extensive areas of land for future development in New South Wales and South Australia.

In addition to describing the taxonomic and metabolic features of this microbial community on mussels, we also tested the similarity and differences with other recently described marine microbial assemblages that are public, including those of coastal Georgia [29], 4 tropical Pacific Ocean seawater samples in the Line Islands [19], and the extensive Global Ocean Sampling Expedition [13].

Then, in 2010, federal experts joined with RMS Titanic on an expedition to do extensive mapping.

After extensive preparations in Washington, the expedition heads west by train, stagecoach, steamboat and, eventually, covered wagon.

The expedition members noted extensive salmon fishing by natives at Willamette Falls, much like that at Celilo Falls on the Columbia River.