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Portuguese expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. Part of the expedition, captained by Gaspar's brother Miguel Corte-Real, were sent back to Portugal and are the only known survivors from this expedition. Corte-Real rescue expedition Miguel Corte-Real: 1502 Atlantic Ocean: Portuguese rescue mission to search for lost explorer Gaspar ...
1930: Bratvaag Expedition, led by Gunnar Horn to Franz Josef Land, found long lost remains of Salomon August Andrée's expedition 1930–1931 : British Arctic Air Route Expedition was an expedition, led by Gino Watkins , that aimed to draw improved maps and charts of poorly surveyed sections of Greenland's coastline
Lewis and Clark Expedition: The North Magnetic Pole: 1831-06-01 James Clark Ross: Australia: c. 1640 Makassar People before. Explored by Abel Tasman. Interior of Africa 1851–1873 David Livingstone: The Burke and Wills expedition (Central Australia) 1860–1861 Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills
The British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition, also known as Franklin's lost expedition, ...
List of lost expeditions; M. List of Mount Everest expeditions; S. List of Soviet Antarctic expeditions This page was last edited on 15 June 2021, at 21:56 (UTC). ...
The expedition was abandoned when its Russian ship became stuck in unusually large amounts of sea ice. 2013 – In December 2013 the Expeditions 7 Team led by Scott Brady made a successful east-to-west crossing in four-wheel drive vehicles from Novolazarevskaya to the Ross Ice Shelf via the Scott-Amundsen South Pole Station.
During the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition, two people died en route to the mountain: an unidentified porter and heart attack victim A. M. Kellas. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The first recorded deaths on the mountain itself were seven porters who perished in an avalanche in the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition .
Franklin's lost expedition: 59 (Franklin) Victoria Strait: The expedition led by Sir John Franklin, with 129 seamen, made last contact with a whaling ship before entering Victoria Strait in search of the Northwest Passage.