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The San Francisco Bay Discovery Site is a marker commemorating the first recorded European sighting of San Francisco Bay. In 1769, the Portola expedition traveled north by land from San Diego, seeking to establish a base at the Port of Monterey described by Sebastian Vizcaino in 1602. When they reached Monterey, however, they were not sure it ...
On 5 October 2011, 0900UTC. MV Polar Bound arrived at Whitehaven UK completing his sixth solo circumnavigation and fourth Northwest Passage transit.. When Polar Bound called at Honolulu for a brief refueling stop in June 2011, before continuing up to Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians, agents for NASA were trying to find a vessel which would undertake a 900-mile journey out into the Pacific to try ...
On my expedition, I had the chance to visit the iconic Diamond Beach and a former herring factory in the tiny village of Djupavík now restored into a museum by a local family.
Expedition Unknown premiered on January 8, 2015, on the Travel Channel [1] [2] and broadcast four seasons through 2017. [5] [6] [7]At the start of the fifth season in 2018, the series moved to Discovery Channel, which became the new home for the series.
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The expedition also crossed Ellesmere Island from east to west, and James B. Lockwood and David Legge Brainard achieved a new "farthest north" record of 83° 23' 8" on Lockwood Island. [7] In 1882, Greely sighted a mountain range during a dog sledding exploration to the interior of northern Ellesmere Island and named it the Conger Range . [ 8 ]
Fortune Bay (French: baie Fortune) is a fairly large natural bay located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada. [1] The Bay is bounded by Point Crewe on the Burin Peninsula and Pass Island) at the entrance to Hermitage Bay to the northwest for a distance of 56
A wealthy Bay Area enclave formed a ‘heritage alliance’ to become a historic district—and it all started after a new family bought a home in the neighborhood Alena Botros March 16, 2024 at 7 ...