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Map Description
History Map of World Geographic
Expeditions From the United States, 1838-1966.
Illustrating
1838-1842 U.S. Exploring Expedition (Wilkes)
1847-1848 U.S. Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea
(Lynch)
1849-1852 U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern
Hemisphere (Gilliss)
1851 U.S. brig Dolphin's Cruise of the Atlantic Ocean (Lee)
1851-1852 Expedition to the Valley of the Amazon (Herndon and
Gibbon)
1852-1854 Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas
and Japan (Perry)
1853-1856 U.S. Expedition to and Survey of the River La Plata
and Its Tributaries (Page)
1853-1856 U.S. North Pacific Exploring Expedition (Rodgers and
Ringgold)
1873-1874 USS Tuscarora deep sea sounding of the North Pacific
Ocean (Belknap)
1874-1875 Expedition for the Observation of the Transit of Venus
(Ryan)
1879-1881 USS Jeannette North Polar Expedition by way of Bering
Strait (De Long)
1920 U.S. Army Air Service - New York to Nome
1922 USS Stewart long distance cruise for sonic sounding
1924 U.S. Army Air Service flight around the world
1927 Lindbergh solo flight - New York to Paris
1931 Lindbergh Orient flight
1931 Cramer transarctic flight - Detroit to Copenhagen
1933 Lindbergh - Pan American arctic flight
1946 USAAF Pacuson Dreamboat
1954-on USAF Project Falcon Alpha
1954-on USAF Project Falcon Bravo
1958 USS Nautilus atomic submarine (SSN-571)
1959 USS Skate atomic submarine (SSN-578)
1965 Pole to pole flight around the world
1966 USS Triton atomic submarine (SSN-586) undersea around the
world
Credits
The University of Texas at
Austin. From the National Atlas of the United States of America
(1970).
Related Maps
Map of the USA - Arctic Expeditions
Map of the USA -
Antarctic Expeditions
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