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1919 Katmai expedition with Griggs sixth from the left. Robert Fiske Griggs (August 22, 1881, in Brooklyn, Connecticut – June 10, 1962), was a botanist who led a 1915 National Geographic Society (NGS) expedition to observe the aftermath of the Katmai volcanic eruption.
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Lindblad Expeditions (Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic, Nasdaq: LIND) is an expedition travel company headquartered in New York, NY. The company currently offers expedition cruises to destinations on all seven continents aboard 15 ships with capacities ranging from 28 to 150 guests.
They completed six additional expeditions through National Geographic, working freelance at first and later as foreign editorial staff, for fifteen years, from 1956 to 1970. They worked as a team and lived for periods of time in about 50 countries on five continents.
National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions’ small luxury expedition cruises take travelers off the beaten path to immerse them in the local culture and natural beauty of the destination. As Trey ...
National Geographic. 124 (4): 474– 507. Archived from the original on January 27, 2008. Bishop, Barry (March 15, 1964). "Everest–1963". The Mountaineer. 1964. The Mountaineers: 111– 116. Archived from the original on August 14, 2020. Clements, Philip W. (2018). Science in an Extreme Environment: The 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition ...
On 5 March 2013 it was announced that Orion Expeditions had been acquired by US-based small-ship operator Lindblad Expeditions, which owns five ships and charters a further five and operates cruises to a variety of destinations. CFMF holds a 60 percent interest in Lindblad Expeditions.
He was awarded the Hubbard Medal of the National Geographic Society for breaking the trail through the frozen Arctic Sea to within 150 miles of the pole, [2] yet was excluded from the final exploring party (possibly due to a rivalry between the two men). [3] Bartlett took a ship and was the first person to sail north of 88° N.