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

Then bounding again like the falling stone, he pursued his flight, till at length, bruised and bleeding, he reached the bottom of the rocky scarp, hitherto untraversed except by the sticky foot of the lizard.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis

That a journey so utterly without precedent or parallel, in which so little could be anticipated or provided for, through regions absolutely untraversed and very nearly unknown, should be monotonous, may seem strange.

From Across the Zodiac by Greg, Percy

On the one side was the great arid desert stretching away to Timbuctoo, on the other was a sea untraversed by vessels.

From The Captain of the Polestar by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir