Sentence examples for survey expedition from inspiring English sources

He had joined Ferdinand V. Hayden's survey expedition to Wyoming.

This was part of the Last Ice Survey expedition to gather data about snow and ice thickness for York University, Ontario.

Cornelissen and de Roo departed Resolute Bay for Bathurst Island on 6 April as part of the Last Ice Survey expedition, with the goal of exploring and researching an area known as the Last Ice Area.

The following year he joined an ordnance survey expedition tracing the route taken by the Israelites from Egypt through the Sinai Desert to Jerusalem, and in 1870 he accompanied Charles Tyrwhitt Drake, an explorer, on a further desert exploration.

In the nineteenth century, artists visited the Far West as members of huge expeditions: Albert Bierstadt, a painter-pioneer who was one of the first to turn to the Rockies and Yosemite instead of the Alps to depict the sublime, travelled with a railway survey expedition in 1859.

The most talented of four artist brothers (Edward, the oldest, is admired for his seascapes), Moran is best known for oil paintings and exotic popular illustrations inspired by his participation in the first government-sponsored survey expedition to Yellowstone in 1871.

Mr. O'Sullivan spent eight years in the West, on and off, as a photographer on government survey expeditions.

Opened in 2011, after a rain-soaked year of survey expeditions and complex engineering, it has fast become a flagship destination on the falang road, luring travellers into a hinterland that was previously all but impenetrable.

In the 1870s and 1880s, these photographers were frequently employed by government and commercially sponsored land survey expeditions, which came west in search of mining opportunities and to plot the course of the railroads.

Elsewhere in the Public Vaults, I checked out some stereoscopic "3-D" photographs taken on survey expeditions to the West in the late 1800s, including some taken on John Wesley Powell's expeditions to the Grand Canyon.

We use the historic literature and museum records from orangutan hunting and survey expeditions in Borneo to estimate orangutan encounter rates, and apply robust statistical approaches to evaluate whether these rates have decreased over time.