Expeditions

Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa expedition to the Patagonian channels and Strait of Magellan

Spanish exploration expedition to the Patagonian channels and the Strait of Magellan (1579–1580)

📅 1579 – 1580
🌍 Spanish Empire

Colombian all-female ornithological expedition (2020)

An all-female ornithological expedition retracing the footsteps of Elizabeth L. Kerr and honoring he...

📅 2020-12-11 – 2020-12-14
🌍 Colombia

Schomburgk expeditions to British Guiana

Botanical and geographical explorations to British Guiana by Robert Hermann Schomburgk between 1835...

📅 1835-09-21 – 1839-06-20
🌍 British Guiana

Wied-Neuwied expedition to Brazil

Expedition to southeast Brazil between 1815 and 1817 lead by Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied

📅 1815-07-16 – 1817-05-10
🌍 Brazil

German-Dutch New Guinea border expedition

German-Dutch border expedition in the north-eastern part of the island of New Guinea in 1910

📅 1910-02 – 1910-12-03
🌍 Papua New Guinea

Eberhard von Oertzen expeditions in and around Greece

Series of expeditions by Eberhard von Oertzen in the 1880s

📅 1884 – 1887
🌍 Greece

Schomburgk survey of Guiana's boundaries

Expedition commissioned by the British Government to carry out a survey of Guiana's boundaries in 18...

📅 1841-01 – 1844-05
🌍 Guyana

Lawa expedition

expedition in Surinam (1892)

📅 1892-01-15 – 1892-05-16
🌍 Suriname

German East Africa Expedition Hans Meyer (1911)

🌍 German East Africa

Mozambique Expedition Wilhelm Peters (1842-1848)

research expedition (1842-1848)

📅 1842 – 1848
🌍 Mozambique

Austrian Brazil Expedition (1903)

Austrian research expedition to Brazil in 1903

📅 1903-02-16
🌍 Brazil

First Russian circumnavigation

Russian Voyage

📅 1803-08-07 – 1806-08-06
🌍 Russian Empire

Filchner Central Asia Expedition

Expedition to Central Asia by Wilhelm Filchner in 1926-28

📅 1926 – 1928

Carrisso Iter Angolanum 1937

Botanic expedition to Angola

📅 1937-02 – 1937-07
🌍 Angola

Missão Académica a Angola (1929)

Scientific and pedagogic mission to Angola

📅 1929-08-10 – 1929-10
🌍 Angola

Herdemerten‘s 1938 Expedition to western Greenland

German expedition to explore flora and fauna of Greenland

CONTRASTS Expedition

2025 Arctic expedition

📅 2025-07-02 – 2025-09-01

Third Africa expedition Carlo von Erlanger

Research expedition through Somalia, Ethiopia and the Sudan with Carlo von Erlanger and Oscar Neuman...

📅 1900-01-12 – 1901-06-15
🌍 Somalia

H. M. Willkommii Iter hispanicum 1873

botanical expedition to the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands by Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1873...

📅 1873-03-15 – 1873-10-01
🌍 Spain

H. M. Willkommii Iter hispanicum 1850

botanical expedition to the Iberian Peninsula by Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1850)

📅 1850-04-28 – 1850-12-01
🌍 Spain

Togo Hinterland Expedition

Exploratory/military mission of 1894/1895 in Togo, to increase German colonial power through the sig...

Emin-Pascha Expedition 1890-1892

Politically motivated research expedition of central Africa in 1890-1892 lead by Emin Pascha and Fra...

📅 1890-04-26 – 1892-07-12
🌍 German East Africa

Neumann expedition in East and Central Africa (1892-1895)

Research expedition by Oscar Neumann through Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, between 1892 and 1895

📅 1892-11 – 1985
🌍 Tanzania

Carrisso Iter Angolanum 1927

Botanic Expedition to Angola

📅 1927-06-01 – 1927-12-13