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Expedition meaning
The act of expediting something; prompt execution. | A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory. | The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
Example sentences (20)
However, the long-wheelbase Expedition MAX is just a little bit bigger, with a maximum passenger volume of 172 cubic feet versus 171.9 cubic feet for the regular Expedition model.
At 8,430 meters above sea level, the high-altitude expedition team celebrates after setting upthe world’s highest operating automated weather station during National Geographic andRolex’s 2019 Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mt. Everest.
During an expedition down the Franklin River in northwest Tasmania, Aljaz Cosini, the expedition’s guide, drowns in an attempt to rescue a punter who has fallen into the raging rapids.
Expedition spokesman Michal Leksinski tweeted they had no radio communication with Urubko, who left base camp on Sunday without informing the expedition management.
Vijay Singh, PRO Police said, “The fresh expedition to North Sentinel Island was undertaken, our DGP was present in the expedition.
When Charlotte met the woman the next day, she turned out to be a marine biologist from the expedition which recently salvaged Eira, the lost boat of my great-great-great uncle Benjamin Leigh Smith’s Arctic expedition in 1881.
After the first reconnaissance expedition by the British in 1921 reached convert on the North Col, the 1922 expedition pushed the North ridge route up to convert marking the first time a human had climbed above convert.
A Indian expedition from West Bengal suffered a great tragedy, with the single expedition suffering three fatalities and third, a mother of an 11-year old had to be rescued on her way down.
Both of these tribes were rivals and hoped to use the expedition to their own advantage and who both demanded tribute from the expedition for their passage over the river at that particular juncture.
Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation.
Elsewhere, instructions were sent ahead to Yakutsk, Irkutsk and Okhotsk to aid Bering's second expedition – and thus, the naivety of the first expedition in assuming compliance was repeated.
Having returned to Okhotsk with a much larger, better prepared, and much more ambitious expedition, Bering set off for an expedition towards North America in 1741.
Lacerda led an expedition from Mozambique to the Kazembe region in Zambia (with the goal of exploring and to crossing Southern Africa from coast to coast for the first time), citation and died during the expedition in 1798.
Nevertheless, da Gama's expedition was successful beyond all reasonable expectation, bringing in cargo that was worth sixty times the cost of the expedition.
Plot Concentrate is about the leader of a geological expedition, who waits for the boat that brings back the concentrates collected by the expedition.
President Andrew Jackson also ordered America's first Sumatran punitive expedition of 1832, which was followed by a punitive expedition in 1838.
Return of the expedition to Mexico City De Soto's expedition had explored La Florida for three years without finding the expected treasures or a hospitable site for colonization efforts.
Reynolds went on an expedition to Antarctica himself but missed joining the Great U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842, even though that venture was a result of his agitation.
Shackleton returned to the lecture circuit and published his own account of the Endurance expedition, South, in December 1919.sfn In 1920, tired of the lecture circuit, Shackleton began to consider the possibility of a last expedition.
The expedition's cook, Edward Blake, accused Canning of mistreating many of the Aboriginal people they met during the survey expedition.