Imperial Chinese and European societies had little contact with the Highland aborigines until expeditions to the region by European and American explorers and missionaries commenced in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
That's because, despite hundreds of people witnessing the sinking of the largest ship afloat up to that time, only fourteen survivors testified that they saw it break apart, leading to a consensus that the ship sunk intact until expeditions in the last few decades proved otherwise.
It remained docked until Expedition 2, when it was intentionally burnt up during atmospheric reentry, like all Progress spacecraft.
Until this expedition, the only surveys of the ridge had been done sporadically by Navy submarines that, while submerged, cannot maintain precise coordinates on their positions.
Until this expedition, the depths of New Hebrides trench, which sits about 1,500km 1,0000 miles) north of New Zealand, had not been explored.
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In the attempt of 1896, the wind immediately refuted his optimism by blowing steadily from the north, straight at the balloon hangar at Danskøya, until the expedition had to pack up, let the hydrogen out of the balloon, and go home.
Impoverished and in ill health, António returned to Paris, where he planned further expeditions until his death.
But it wasn't until four private expeditions were assembled recently that a return to the Challenger Deep was possible.
It was unknown until 1938, when expeditions sponsored by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago discovered a long inscription on the walls of an Achaemenian building known as the Kaʿbe-ye Zardusht ("Kaaba of Zoroaster").
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