In 1960 the expedition, led by Forbes Wilson and Del Flint, confirmed the huge copper deposits at the Ertsberg.

Later expeditions up to 1866 confirmed these reports.

The expeditions confirmed Isaac Newton's belief that the shape of the earth is an ellipsoid flattened at the poles.

A later expedition and subsequent petrographic and other laboratory analyses of samples of the stone balls confirmed this suspicion.

An expedition under Hernando de Alarcón ascended the lower Colorado River and confirmed Ulloa's finding.

Studying the pattern of triliths on their course, Mr. Hedges said, the expedition confirmed that these are indeed route markers and that they probably convey distances, locations of water sources and directions.

The expedition confirmed the placer diamond deposits, went on to search for the origin, and found the ruins of the city.,, "And then what happened?"

The expedition also confirmed that Antarctica was a continent.

A 2007 diving expedition confirmed two of the hits by examination of the wreck: the portside hit near the propellers and the starboard hit amidship.

The expedition confirmed Custer's claims of gold, and prompted an increase of miners in the Black Hills region, which in turn antagonized events leading to the Great Sioux War of 1876-77.