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Other details on the map include administrative borders, population centers, Chukchi dwellings, and impassable ice. The inset map is of Kodiak Island, Alaska, denoted here by its Russian name of Kykhtak. Discoveries in geography; Discovery and exploration; Pacific Ocean
The Russian Empire began its interest of the Pacific Northwest in the 18th century, initially curious if there was a land connection between the Eurasian and North American Continents. Two expeditions were led by Vitus Bering , with the findings proving the separation of two continents through the Bering Sea .
Chirikov took part in creating the final map of the Russian discoveries in the Pacific Ocean (1746). [9] In 1746 was assigned the Director of Academy of the Naval Guard , St. Petersburg. Chirikov's name is given to Capes of the Kyūshū Island, Attu Island , Anadyr Bay , Tauyskaya Bay , an underwater mountain in the Pacific Ocean, Chirikof ...
The achievements of the expedition included the European discovery of Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, the Commander Islands, Bering Island, as well as a detailed cartographic assessment of the northern and north-eastern coast of Russia and the Kuril Islands. It definitively refuted the legend of a land mass in the north Pacific, and did ...
Beginning in 1743, small associations of fur-traders began to sail from the shores of the Russian Pacific coast to the Aleutian islands. [9] The Bering Strait, where Russia's east coast lies closest to Alaska's west coast. Early Russian colonization occurred well south of the strait, in the Aleutian Islands.
Apart from their discoveries in Alaska, Central Asia, Siberia, and the northern areas surrounding the North Pole, Russian explorers have made significant contributions to the exploration of the Antarctic, Arctic, and the Pacific islands, as well as deep-sea and space explorations.
A map of the paths of James Cook and Russian explorers in the North Pacific during the 18th century, including Spanberg's three voyages.. Martin Spanberg [1] (d. 1761; Russian: Мартын Петрович Шпанберг, Martyn Petrovich Shpanberg) was a Danish-born Russian naval officer who took part with his compatriot Vitus Bering in both Kamchatka expeditions as second in command.
Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean: Maps of Discovery and Scientific Exploration, 1500–2000, (2001) Haycox, Stephen, et al. eds. Enlightenment and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1741–1805. (U of Washington Press, 1997) excerpt. Heawood, Edward. A History Of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries (1912 ...