| On his expeditions Major Thomas Mitchell travelled with carts or drays, and in 1836 he had a four-wheeled wagonette to carry a portable boat. |
| Three volumes of a newspaper created on expeditions to the Antarctic led by Captain Scott are to be republished. |
| At 83, he still loves the mountains and the challenge of the climb but expressed concern at how the expeditions now are so commercialised. |
| He collected many mollusks himself, financed expeditions, and exchanged with prominent malacologists all over the world. |
| Punitive expeditions destroyed crops and stores and lifted cattle, leaving villagers to starve as a salutary lesson for resistance or revolt. |
| In King William's War in the 1690s, Church led expeditions against the Abenaki in Maine and the French in Acadia. |
