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Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen [a] [b] or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen [c] [d] (20 September [O.S. 9 September] 1778 – 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1852) was a Russian cartographer, explorer, and naval officer of Baltic German descent, who attained the rank of admiral.
[127] [128] The expedition reached a cape extending north to south which they called Cape of "Santa Maria" (Punta del Este, keeping the name the Cape nearby); and after 40°S they found a "Cape" or "a point or place extending into the sea", and a "Gulf" (in June and July). After they had navigated for nearly 300 km (186 mi) to round the cape ...
Map drawn by Robert McClure detailing the Northwest Passage, including the 1851 route of the Investigator. The first ascent of the Matterhorn, by Gustave Doré. The original survey map created by L.M. D'Albertis in 1876. Nansen and Johansen finally depart on their polar journey, 14 March 1895.
The Ship of Lost Souls or The Ship of Lost Men (German: Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen) is a 1929 German silent thriller film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Fritz Kortner, Marlene Dietrich and Robin Irvine. [1] It was Dietrich's last silent film before The Blue Angel made her an international star.
On his new map, Waldseemüller labelled the continent discovered by Columbus Terra Incognita ('unknown land'). [183] On 25 September 1513, the Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa, exploring overland, became the first European to encounter the Pacific Ocean from the shores of the Americas, calling it the "South Sea".
In addition, the Shelleys knew several members of the so-called "Kreis der Empfindsamen", a literary circle that met in Darmstadt from 1769 to 1773; Castle Frankenstein was frequently used as a location for their public readings, thus making it possible that Dippel's legends could have come up during conversations between those in the circle ...
With the Allies strong grip on most suitable locations, Germany established an undetected weather station on Alexandra Land named Schatzgräber, located 500 meters (1,600 ft) inland from Cambridge Bay. Ten men landed in September 1943 after a three-day voyage from Tromsø in the weather observation ship Kehdingen escorted by U-387. Additional ...
During the First World War, Great Britain's Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow and Germany's Kaiserliche Marine faced each other across the North Sea. Due to its numerical advantage in dreadnoughts, the Grand Fleet obtained Naval superiority and was able to establish a sea blockade of Germany's coast. The goal of the blockade was to deny Germany ...