untraversed

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She calls the machines her company’s spaceships, allowing her dancers to reach “unknown, untraversed topographies.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 22, 2015

Explorers have known that if it were used it would cut 100 mi. from the Baffin Bay-Barrow Strait passage, save 400 miles if the still untraversed Fury and Hecla Strait were navigable.

From Time Magazine Archive

Furnishing materials of commerce which have been objects of universal desire since the deluge—gold, gems, ivory, fragrant gums, and spices—it has still remained almost untraversed by the European foot, except along its coast.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various

He departed on the 8th of November, 1813; and, marching across a hitherto untraversed country of a hundred leagues, he reached this point about Christmas.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Mayer, Brantz

But to bring about any part of his projects he must plunge still deeper into the untraversed.

From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)