Key members of the expedition had been ordered to keep a journal, and I’d gladly have volunteered my services as supernumerary scribe. Bellingshausen and his fellow officers befriended the Maori on shore, exchanged gifts, feasted with the chiefs, delicately declined offers of ‘temporary...
Agu. 4, 2015. The 21st fleet of Chinese navy escort left for Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia to take over the 20th fleet for the escort mission. China's naval fleets have escorted 3,400 foreign ships over the past 10 years, around 51.5 percent of the total escorted,...
In the speech, Sobral recounts the challenges and discoveries of the Swedish-Argentine Antarctic Expedition, describes life at Snow Hill and along the Antarctic Peninsula, and sets forth goals for future Argentine expeditions and accomplishments in Antarctica....
Commodore Wilfredo Burgunio, deputy commander of the Philippine Fleet, told Xinhua that he believes the visit will promote the relations between the navies. "We welcome this (visit). And we hope to have more engagements like this," he said. "The arrival of our Chinese Navy counterparts unders...
At 18 years of age, when a Boy Scout, served with ShackletonRowett Antarctic Expedition. in the "Quest" under late Sir Ernest Shackleton, 1921-1922. Zoologist to British Arctic Expedition, 1925. Appointed zoologist in the Colonial Service ("Discovery" Investigations), 1926, and in this se...
subsequently named Wilkes Land in honour of the expedition's commander, Charles Wilkes. In 1849, seven years after the expedition's return, the Royal Geographical Society presented Wilkes with its Founders medal "for the talent and perseverance he displayed in a voyage in the Antarctic regions"....
La Salle's Expedition to Louisiana in 1684, painted in 1844 by Theodore Gudin. La Belle is on the left, Le Joly is in the middle, and L'Aimable is grounded in the distance, right. 1745 - HMS Chester (1743 - 50), Cptn. Francis Geary, and HMS Sutherland (1741 - ...
Sent by Captain Francis Crozier, recently returned from the British Antarctic Expedition, the bequest contained 150 species of Southern Ocean birds, including the remains of two immature 'great penguins'. Taking the one surviving specimen as a focal point, this paper compares and contrasts the ways...
China's icebreaker Xuelong returns to Shanghai after finishing 34th Antarctic expedition Kim Jong Un announces "discontinuance" of nuclear, missile tests EDITOR’S CHOICE / 01. China approves master plan for Xiongan New Area / 02. Plentiful relics recovered at southwest China treasure ruins / ...