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  • Thumbnail for Peary caribou
    syllabics, is a major food source for the Inuit and was named after the American explorer Robert Peary. During the winter, the fur of the Peary caribou becomes...
    17 KB (2,083 words) - 22:53, 1 September 2024
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    the Antarctic Circle" were connected to form a single continent. The American explorer Mercator Cooper landed on East Antarctica on 26 January 1853. The...
    145 KB (15,709 words) - 23:31, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Outer space
    come to reaching outer space was through balloon flights. In 1935, the American Explorer II crewed balloon flight reached an altitude of 22 km (14 mi). This...
    137 KB (13,488 words) - 16:04, 20 September 2024
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    naming it after himself. In 1791, two American ships commanded by the American explorer John Kendrick—the Lady Washington, under Captain Kendrick, and the...
    37 KB (4,802 words) - 11:52, 18 October 2024
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    in Igloolik in 1822. The island was visited in 1867 and 1868 by the American explorer Charles Francis Hall in his search for survivors of the lost Franklin...
    24 KB (1,942 words) - 15:19, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lewis and Clark Expedition
    transited by Pedro Vial" to Spanish authorities. Early in 1792, the American explorer Robert Gray, sailing in the Columbia Rediviva, discovered the yet...
    77 KB (8,667 words) - 21:05, 25 September 2024
  • Sjoman 1999, p. 38. Patel, Niral (16 October 2017). "Theos Bernard – The American Explorer of Tibet". TsemRinpoche.com. Retrieved 25 February 2019. Parachin...
    19 KB (2,232 words) - 11:03, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paraceratherium
    Indricotheriinae to include the various related forms known by then. In 1922, the American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews led a well-documented expedition to China and...
    63 KB (6,965 words) - 05:45, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for White émigré
    Quarter on the east, centered on the alley of Chuanban Hutong. The American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews said he frequented the "cafes of somewhat dubious...
    47 KB (5,736 words) - 14:59, 16 September 2024
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    Harvey, Brian (2018). Discovering the Cosmos with Small Spacecraft The American Explorer Program. Springer Praxis. pp. 168–169. ISBN 9783319681382. Bowyer...
    47 KB (5,167 words) - 00:16, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nansen's Fram expedition
    across it." However, most experienced polar hands were dismissive. The American explorer Adolphus Greely called it "an illogical scheme of self-destruction";...
    60 KB (7,985 words) - 06:02, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for High-altitude balloon
    (16.2 km), the Soviet Osoaviakhim-1 at 22,000 m (22.0 km), and the American Explorer II at 22,066 m (22.1 km). Notable crewed high altitude balloon flights...
    29 KB (3,016 words) - 12:50, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for M. G. Cunniff
    Democrat's nominee for president in 1914. Cunniff was also a friend of the American explorer, F. A. Cook. Cuniff was the long-time managing editor of The World's...
    11 KB (982 words) - 03:32, 8 September 2023
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    part of its crew. And in 1791, two American ships commanded by the American explorer John Kendrick stopped for 11 days on Kii Ōshima island, south of...
    154 KB (19,627 words) - 23:55, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Port Gamble, Washington
    Gamble" after its location on Gamble Bay, which had been named by the American explorer Commodore Wilkes in 1842. The founders of the mill of Port Gamble...
    22 KB (2,895 words) - 22:23, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Deep-sea exploration
    pressure resistant chambers to protect them, or explore remotely. The American explorer William Beebe, also a naturalist from Columbia University in New...
    38 KB (4,384 words) - 18:27, 2 October 2024
  • Johnson, 80, Dies; Inspired 'Johnny B. Goode'". The New York Times. "The American Explorer Series". USA Today. 19 July 1991. p. 1D. Considine, J.D. (9 Jan...
    6 KB (487 words) - 20:03, 1 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seychelles parakeet
    Silhouette. The last record of the species is of a bird shot by the American explorer William Louis Abbott on Mahé in March of 1893. The British ornithologist...
    28 KB (3,378 words) - 22:06, 19 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Manuel Arruda da Câmara
    all. he described 31 new species. He was visited by Henry Koster, the American explorer, in 1810 during the latter's travels in Brazil, and who was later...
    13 KB (1,345 words) - 21:30, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Theodor Koch-Grunberg
    Brazil in 1924 after contracting malaria on an expedition with the American explorer, geographer, and physician Alexander H. Rice Jr. and the Portuguese-Brazilian...
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