Sentence examples for first to navigate from inspiring English sources

After a third winter spent west of the Mackenzie, he passed through the Bering Strait in 1906, becoming the first to navigate the Northwest Passage.

I was visiting the area on a new Pandaw cruise, the first to navigate the Song Hong or Red River, which passes through Hanoi, and its tributaries in northern Vietnam.

But Francisco de Orellana's picturesque account of the Amazons was so compelling that their name – not his – was given to the great river he was the first to navigate.

To be the first to navigate the Northwest Passage and the first to reach not one but both poles probably makes Amundsen the greatest explorer in history, but it is hard to imagine he ever looked back on this episode with much pride.

It is John Wesley Powell on a wooden boat braving the Colorado River to become the first to navigate through the Grand Canyon, and a Victorian Englishwoman named Mary Kingsley wandering parts of West Africa never before explored by a European.

In 1822 or 1823 the Cotton Plant first docked in Columbus, having become the first steamboat to navigate the Upper Tombigbee River.

John Stevens (Class of 1768) developed steam engines that powered both the first steamships to navigate the open ocean and the first steam locomotive.

HOW did Mr. Weihenmayer first learn to navigate the rapids?

He would first have to navigate our border checks.

Frenchman Jacques Cartier was the first European to navigate the great entrance to Canada, the Saint Lawrence River.

He hopes to be the first Briton to navigate the route solo.