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These expeditions are a significant aspect of the amateur radio hobby and are particularly exciting for those looking to make contacts with locations that are difficult to access. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Notable DX-peditions
The expedition was abandoned when its Russian ship became stuck in unusually large amounts of sea ice. 2013 – In December 2013 the Expeditions 7 Team led by Scott Brady made a successful east-to-west crossing in four-wheel drive vehicles from Novolazarevskaya to the Ross Ice Shelf via the Scott-Amundsen South Pole Station.
The two expeditions each had an identical copy of Houzeau's heliometer. [3] An illustration of the transit of Venus of 1882. Ceiling mural in the Paris Observatory. The French Academy of Sciences organized ten expeditions to various locations, including Florida, Mexico, Haiti, Martinique, and Cape Horn. [4]
The Gauss expedition of 1901–1903 (also known as the Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903) [1] was the first German expedition to Antarctica. It was led by geologist Erich von Drygalski in the ship Gauss , named after the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss .
The Hamburg South Seas Expedition or the German South Seas Expedition (German: Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition) was an ethnographic expedition to German New Guinea, specifically the Caroline Islands and Marshall Islands. It was funded by the Hamburg Scientific Foundation. It lasted from 1908 to 1910.
The expeditions findings took 4 decades to be published, and they were published in 24 volumes as Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 (Scientific results of the German deep-sea expedition on the steamer "Valdivia" 1898–1899).
The La Recherche Expedition of 1838 to 1840 was a French Admiralty expedition whose destination was the North Atlantic and Scandinavian islands, including the Faroe Islands, Spitsbergen and Iceland. The expedition in the Scandinavian countries from 1838 to 1840, was a direct continuation of shipments in 1835 and 1836.