Sentence examples for land expedition from inspiring English sources

My entire family were somewhere in the Amazon – my mother on a land expedition, my father and brother on a raft on another river.

But the highest-stakes question was: Should one go on a Crystal land expedition or rent a van with a driver?

In addition, the vast naval and land expedition Buckingham sent against the Spanish port of Cádiz in October 1625 was so poorly organized and equipped that it disintegrated before it could storm the city.

First charted by none other than Sir John Franklin during a land expedition in 1826, Herschel became a famous -- some would say, infamous -- winter harbor for American whaling ships in the 1890's.

This latter group includes Italy, which mounted its first expedition during 1975 76; Uruguay, which made its first land expedition in 1975; Poland, which established marine and land programs during 1976 77; West Germany, which first undertook large-scale operations in 1980 81; India, which began work in the early 1980s; and China, which established its first station in 1984.

Churchill crowed in Parliament that the previous land expedition had cost the Treasury £6m about £120m ($220m) in today's money; the RAF had done the job for £77,000.But there were hints even amid the glee that the truth was murkier.

The greater the delay the greater the difficulty of attainment.'" The Spanish had no idea where to find La Salle, and in 1686 they sent a sea expedition and two land expeditions to try to locate his colony.

This comet-landing expedition has been in the works since 1993, when the European Space Agency green-lighted the project and began designing and building the spaceship and lander with a certain comet in mind.

Not only the landing expeditions but also the Apollo orbital observations yielded important new knowledge.

At a popular park watering hole we visited in a Land Rover expedition the next day, zebra, kudu, wildebeest, springbok and black-faced impala milled about.

Formed in 1839 after a parent New Zealand Association failed to receive a royal charter to proceed with the settlement of the still-independent islands, the company sent a land purchase expedition to New Zealand later that year.