Sentences with phrase «largely unexplored region»

By the late 1970's, TRL science expanded to focusing on the eastern United States, a largely unexplored region for tree - ring research.

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«Between 10,500 and around 5,550 years ago, it was a good place to live,» says Stefan Kröpelin, a geoarchaeologist at the University of Cologne in Germany, who has spent the last 30 years leading excavations in the eastern Sahara, a region that until recently has been largely unexplored.

As he wrote in his published commentary, «While many have concentrated on East Africa as the key and perhaps sole region for the origins of the genus Homo, the continuing surprises emerging from further south remind us that Africa is a huge continent that even now is largely unexplored for its early human fossils.»

A remarkably similar account is found as recently as the late 1700s, written by the esteemed Sixth Panchen Lama, Lobsang Palden Yeshe.Could this legendary hidden world still exist?Years ago, on an extended trek into a closed and largely unexplored inner region of the majestic Himalayan wilderness, in an isolated valley surrounded by vast snow fields and towering ice peaks, explorer M.G. Hawking chanced on a beautiful small village where he encountered remarkable men and women, introduced to him as «masters» and «adepts.»

The Cape West Coast, until recently largely unexplored and unexploited, is a region of unrivalled beauty and geographical diversity.

For much of European history, the north polar regions remained largely unexplored and their geography conjectural.