1.   He was the equal of any of the previous generation of great explorers.

2.   Most travellers suffered appalling hardship and danger, none more so than the great Victorian explorers.

3.   Then he wondered if great explorers ever felt as he did - excited, yes, but more than a little frightened too!

4.   The great explorers who crossed the vast expanses of the seven seas in small ships.

5.   Gould also used his time to visit the great Australian explorer Charles Sturt at his home at Varroville outside Sydney.

6.   It was a day to celebrate the great British explorer.

7.   His route, he decided, would be to follow that of the great explorers Lewis and Clark.

8.   Micheli has the same sense of restlessness that drove the great Italian explorer to look beyond the safe and the familiar.

9.   The Pine Creek rapids, some believe, turned back the great explorer William Clark.