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  • Thumbnail for Botanical garden
    A botanical garden or botanic garden is a garden with a documented collection of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display...
    67 KB (7,308 words) - 05:15, 8 December 2024
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    tied to advancements in navigation and exploration, which led to botanical expeditions that introduced numerous previously unknown species to Europe. As...
    76 KB (9,598 words) - 23:00, 22 December 2024
  • Peter Hadland Davis (category British Army personnel of World War II)
    1938 he began his first botanical expedition, albeit as an amateur on his own initiative. He visited the Middle East and Turkey, but had to break off his...
    6 KB (741 words) - 05:16, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Long's Expedition of 1820
    The Stephen H. Long Expedition of 1820 traversed America's Great Plains and up to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It was the first scientific party...
    24 KB (2,887 words) - 19:19, 5 January 2025
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    Elke Mackenzie (category Use British English from September 2023)
    tasked with both botanical and geological collecting. At the island, Mackenzie participated in several short manhauling expeditions, involving the manual...
    32 KB (3,176 words) - 16:46, 20 November 2024
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    Edward Whittall (category Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
    Whittall is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Whittall's grandfather Charlton Whittall (1791-1867) and his brother...
    5 KB (657 words) - 23:29, 22 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Research stations in Antarctica
    Norwegian/British explorer, led the British Antarctic Expedition to Cape Adare, where he established the first Antarctic base on Ridley Beach. This expedition is...
    78 KB (2,431 words) - 17:50, 26 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for First Russian Antarctic Expedition
    Russian Antarctic Expedition took place in 1819–1821 under the direction of Fabian Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev. The expedition aimed to reach the...
    166 KB (21,886 words) - 11:28, 23 December 2024
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    JSTOR 25475502. Friis, Ib (2015). "Coffee and qat on the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia – botanical, ethnobotanical and commercial observations made in Yemen 1762–1763"...
    52 KB (6,120 words) - 05:07, 30 December 2024
  • John Paul Wellington Furse (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    brought into cultivation under that name. In 1964, they carried out a botanical expedition in conjunction again with the Royal Horticultural Society botanist...
    25 KB (2,728 words) - 23:29, 16 December 2024
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    1955 by Joe Brown and George Band, who were part of the 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition. They stopped just short of the true summit, keeping a promise...
    53 KB (5,675 words) - 14:02, 29 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Morea expedition
    The Morea expedition (French: Expédition de Morée) is the name given to the land intervention of the French Army in the Peloponnese between 1828 and 1833...
    133 KB (16,099 words) - 10:18, 4 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Apostles of Linnaeus
    carried out botanical and zoological expeditions throughout the world that were either devised or approved by botanist Carl Linnaeus. The expeditions took place...
    28 KB (3,198 words) - 23:17, 31 December 2024
  • (1949), Busy Buddies (1956) 379 144 "Still British Toon in with Me" August 24, 2022 (2022-08-24) A British version of "Toon In With Me", with cartoons...
    420 KB (101 words) - 00:09, 5 January 2025
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    interference with James Richardson's expedition. The purpose of this expedition, which was supported by the British government, was to negotiate trade treaties...
    86 KB (11,979 words) - 17:13, 29 September 2024
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    Samuel Baker (category British expatriates in British Ceylon)
    issued Baker's companion with a British passport under the name Florence Barbara Maria Finnian, although she was British neither by birth nor yet by marriage...
    22 KB (2,907 words) - 09:22, 14 December 2024
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    politician and cabinet minister, and honorary secretary of the Burke and Wills expedition. The genus Macadamia (macadamia nut) was named after him in 1857. He died...
    26 KB (3,442 words) - 02:31, 23 December 2024
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    zoology, botany and geography. Heyerdahl is notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he drifted 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean...
    64 KB (7,278 words) - 12:21, 28 November 2024
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    James Theodore Bent (category Use British English from August 2012)
    expedition into those regions. The majority of Bent's collections (hundreds of artefacts but relatively few on display) is to be found in the British...
    13 KB (1,507 words) - 16:05, 30 March 2024
  • South Pole to defy Russian Arctic and British Antarctic claims, based in Norway prestigee on polar expedition. Moreover, Nazi Germany was interested...
    284 KB (34,174 words) - 01:29, 5 January 2025
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