Sentences with phrase «week sailing expedition»

White and Young traveled 18 months apart to Svalbard, Norway via the Arctic Circle Residency Program, a three - week sailing expedition bringing artists and scientists within 1300 km's of the North Pole.

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Ling was part of an international team of 31 scientists from 15 countries that sailed on an eight - week International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 359 to the Maldives.

Besides Amundsen's, there was the Japanese expedition under Lieut. Shirase, which had to retreat to Australia last spring in order to replenish its supply of dogs, and which Amundsen says landed on January 16th at the Bay of Whales, two weeks before he sailed for home; Dr. Mawson's Australian expedition, for which $ 215,000 had been raised up to November 1st last, and which was to land three parties between Cape Adare and Gaussberg; the German expedition under Lieut. Filchner in the «Deutschland,» elaborately equipped with wireless, magnetic, and meteorological apparatus, full of the hope of establishing a base southwest of Coats Land in as high a latitude as possible; and lastly, Capt. Scott's English expedition in the «Terra Nova,» which left New Zealand in November, 1910, badly damaged by stormy weather; so badly, indeed, that the necessary repairs and the cost of making good the stores that had been lost seriously depleted the resources of the party.

This week a team of experts from Rice University, the University of Houston - Clear Lake, Texas A&M and Boston University will sail from Galveston on a five - day expedition to the reefs.