Sentences with phrase «by early explorers»

In November 2016, The Cryosphere journal published a peer - reviewed study by Dr. Jonathan Day showing that Antarctic sea ice extent is unchanged from 100 years ago, as recorded by early explorers.

According to Jonathan Day, the lead author of the study, there is a newly found use to the observations made by early explorers such as Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.

Doubtful Sound Also overlooked by early explorers such as Captain Cook, the Doubtful Sound was so named due to Cook's severe misgivings that, if entered, the combination of the narrow entry - way, steep mountainsides and unpredictable wind patterns would put a retreat in doubt.

Centuries later the Mayan ruins were rediscovered by early explorers and archeologists who found them hidden away in the jungles of southern Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Belize.

The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by early explorers navigating by following the stars, traditional voyagers still practice this art of celestial wayfinding aided by a night sky that twinkles with thousands of lights.

Named for the aboriginal campfires spotted by early explorers, the area is also ablaze with fiery orange lichen - covered boulders.

Have students explore Columbus's Ships, Evolution of Ship Building to Face South Atlantic Seas, Technical Advances in Shipbuilding and Navigation, and other sites, and create a replica of a ship that might have been used by early explorers.

Leafing through it, you can examine close - up color photographs and scientific descriptions of species ranging from sponges to herons, compare maps by early explorers to those made with the latest Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, or reflect on the impact of military and industrial use of the bay on the local environment and culture.

They remain intact and — thanks to the cold, dry Antarctic climate — remarkably well preserved, down to the chocolate bars, seal blubber, and dog biscuits carried by these early explorers.

Ironically, early settlers brought domesticated turkeys with them — these were the descendants of Mesoamerican poultry that had been introduced to Europe by earlier explorers.

Not exact matches

Who could have known in those early days, that by 2017, a landscape once loomed over by companies like Microsoft (Internet Explorer) and Netscape (Navigator) would fractionalize and give way to totally new players like Google (Chrome)?

For the early explorers, and certainly for those in Europe reading their first reports, the specificity and detail of America's native flora and fauna, and even more, its aboriginal Indian cultures, which by 1492 had already completed a long and distinguished history in this hemisphere, were swallowed up in a generalized feeling of newness which replaced that specificity and detail with the blank screen of an alleged «state of nature.»

The New Mexican landraces were developed from seeds brought from central Mexico by the early Spanish explorers who settled towns such as San Juan and Santa Fe in northern New Mexico after 1600.

The Viking Age did not last long — it's generally defined as beginning in the late eighth century and ending in most areas by the early 12th century — but the explorers still capture our imagination today.

NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), slated for launch no earlier than 6:09 A.M. Pacific Standard Time on December 11, is charged with mapping the sky in the mid-infrared to create an atlas of objects whose emitted light is invisible to human eyes and largely absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

Also, the trips to the early «huts» used by the great explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton were incredible.

But, ultimately, these cities died; most likely a victim of the diseases brought by European explorers in the early 16th century, according to Heckenberger.

An explorer named Frederick Cook claimed to have gotten there a year earlier — the controversy over who was actually first continues today — but Peary, assisted by fellow Bowdoin alumnus Donald B. MacMillan, documented his trip more extensively, and many historians give his mission the nod.

However, they were undoubtedly seen by both earlier European explorers and observers in the southern hemisphere, although they were never reported.

Awestruck by nature, early American explorers wrote about western landscapes in terms of such singular amazement that residents of the east coast interpreted their accounts to be works of fiction.

The southerly route of the Northwest Passage — originally discovered between 1903 to 1906 by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen — was open in late August and early September, and the Northern Sea Route along Russia has been open for most of the month.

Directed and co-written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu («Birdman»), the film follows an early 19th - century expedition of the American wilderness, where explorer Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) is mauled by a bear, and then robbed and left for dead by his own hunting companions.

James Gray's adaptation of the story of early 20th Century British explorer Percy Fawcett, based on a New Yorker article and subsequent book by David Grann, is as beguiling, beautiful and ultimately confounding as the Amazonian jungle in which it is largely set.

A History teacher can draw on stories told by and for Indigenous Australians on topics such as how people lived prior to colonisation, early interactions with explorers and missionaries, stories of massacres, and personal reminiscences of World War II.

It will battle such four - door competitors as the Toyota 4Runner and two early 1990 arrivals, Ford Explorer and Chevrolet S - 10 Blazer, in a segment explored by Jeep Cherokee.

Other breeds include the Peruvian Inca Orchid, rarely found outside Peru, and first recorded by Spanish explorers in the early sixteenth century.

The famous Ankor temple complex was lost in the jungles until discovered by French explorers in the early 1900s, yet decades of war and civil strife, until recently, kept most tourists away.

The Howick Falls were most likely first seen by European explorers in the early 19th century as transport riders and wagon trains cut routes inland from the coast.

Retrace the journey taken by early European explorers in search of fertile pastures.

SANparks also offers a bush braai experience, where visitors have the option of combining their African safari experience, sampling the local cuisine under the stars in an open area lit by lanterns, much as early explorers of the area would have experienced it.

Early the next morning we rode out to take in the vast, dramatic landscapes just as explorers would have done centuries before, followed by kayaking on a flat azure lake alongside creaking glaciers.

The name Tulum, was given by the explorers during the early 20th century.

Coming upon impressive abandoned cities covered by vegetation in the middle of the jungle caused early archaeologists and explorers to wonder: who built these spectacular cities only to abandon them?

Originally built in the early 1900s by miners and homesteaders, the Rogue River Trail was the sole way in and out of the canyon for these early explorers.

The reserves contains excellent lodges and safari experiences where you can see all of Africa's Big 5 while enjoying comfortable or luxurious accommodation and walking safaris influenced by early African explorers.

Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter at the Empire awards in London, the British actor said there had «been conversations» about her taking on the part of the English archaeological explorer made famous by Angelina Jolie in two early noughties films.

The style of map depicted in The Gaze has been drawn in 80 CW, a similar style to the earliest maps of Taiwan that were hand drawn by Portuguese and Spanish explorers in the 15th century.

Created between the early 1800s and the early 1900s, just as nations in the Americas gained and asserted their independence, the paintings represent efforts by explorers and by artists — both European and locally born — to capture and define the essence of a place on canvas, always rooted in the natural beauty of the land.

In the following section, we will assess this claim, by trying to answer the question, «Would the great 19th and early 20th Arctic explorers have been able to carry out all their voyages if they had attempted it during 1979 conditions?»

The population densities of Native Americans encountered by the early colonists and explorers are totally inconsistent with the 50 million plus figure you suggest.

Those trees burned by early Ellesmere explorers?

Petz wrote earlier about E-Base 2041, described by explorer Robert Swan:» We are using green, innovative and sustainable materials and applying them to the cleanest coldest place on earth.

In the spirit of the early explorers I shall ignore the fact that it is possible to walk to the summit and make an attempt by ladder.»

Maps produced by explorers and early settlers are some of the best documentation of which nations were living where at time of contact, and can help Indigenous peoples demonstrate their claim to their territory.

Originally founded by French - explorers in the early 1700's, Racine, translated from French, means «root.»

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