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Josh Gates. Joshua Gates is an American television presenter-actor and television producer who hosts and co-executive produces The Discovery Channel (and former Travel Channel) series Expedition: Unknown and also Legendary Locations. He is also the host of live specials for, and a guest investigator on, the television series Ghost Hunters and ...
The Explorers Club. Coordinates: 40.7700258°N 73.9655750°W. The Explorers Club is an American-based international multidisciplinary professional society with the goal of promoting scientific exploration and field study. The club was founded in New York City in 1904 and has served as a meeting point for explorers and scientists worldwide.
July 13, 1959 (age 65) Long Island, New York, United States. Occupation (s) Explorer, host, producer, author. Richard Wiese (born July 13, 1959) is an American explorer, the longest serving President of The Explorers Club, [1] and Executive Producer and Host of the multiple Emmy Award-winning ABC and PBS program, Born to Explore. [2]
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Cover of Time Magazine, October 29, 1923. Roy Chapman Andrews (January 26, 1884 – March 11, 1960) was an American explorer, adventurer, and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. [1] He led a series of expeditions through the politically disturbed China of the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and ...
Russian Civil War. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland, Shackleton ...
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, named Faith 7 , completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean , piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper , then a United States Air Force major .
Abraham Ortelius 's 1570 world map, the world's first modern atlas. Geographical exploration, sometimes considered the default meaning for the more general term exploration, refers to the practice of discovering remote lands and regions of the planet Earth. [1] It is studied by geographers and historians. [citation needed]