People of Norwegian descent settled in Greenland and undertook expeditions to Vinland (somewhere on the northeast coast of North America).
He also undertook expeditions to photograph forests and jungles where the tropical foliage was often so dense and lush as to resist the scrutiny the images compelled.
From there he undertook expeditions to Mauritius in 1874, to observe the transit of Venus, and to Ascension Island in 1877, when Mars was in opposition.
During the next two years he undertook expeditions to Brittany, met the veteran Impressionist Camille Pissarro, and discovered the series of Impressionist masterpieces in the Gustave Caillebotte Collection, which had just been donated amid protests from conservatives to the French nation.
He undertook expeditions in the Sinai for turquoise, in Upper Egypt for amethyst and to the Land of Punt.
As a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, he undertook expeditions to Africa and the Amazon to collect specimens, mainly reptiles and amphibians.
Like other Plateau peoples, however, they engaged in communal fishing, built great bark and dugout canoes, and acknowledged a supreme chief only when undertaking special expeditions.
Olaf's son, Magnus III, ruled for 10 years, during which he undertook three expeditions to Scotland to establish Norwegian sovereignty over the Orkneys and the Hebrides.
Only good wood was lacking, and the need for it led the Egyptians to undertake foreign expeditions to Lebanon, to Somalia, and, through intermediaries, to tropical Africa.
"Dream West" (1984) tells how Fr?nt, a daring, ambitious Army officer, undertook surveying expeditions in the West in the 1840s, among them the vital mapping of the Oregon Trail.
