Carte des decouvertes faites par les Russes et par le Capitaine anglois Jacques Cook dans la Mer du Sud [cartographic material] /

• Main Author: Wilbrecht, Alexander
• Other Authors: Nabholz, Johann Christoph, 1752-1797
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: [St. Petersburg, Russia? : s.n., 1787]. 1856
• Subjects: Cook; James; 1728-1779 > Travel > Bering Sea; Discoveries in geography > Maps; North Pacific Ocean > Discovery and exploration > Maps; North Pacific Ocean > Maps; Bering Sea; Ferro; Pacific; Archipelago; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm525

Map of the North Pacific Ocean and adjacent lands which combines the exploratory third voyage of James Cook in 1778-79 with Russian maps based on the Great Northern Expedition lead by Behring and Chirikov, who discovered southern Alaska & later the Aleutian Islands as well as the Aleksander Archipelago of present-day Alaska. The map features the time-dated routes of North Pacific explorers Behring, Tschirikow (1741), Crenizine, Spanberg, Walton, Schelting, Petroushow and Cook over the period 1728 to 1779. Relief is shown pictorially.; Prime meridian: Ferro.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm525. Inset: Carte les Isles Kichtak et Afognat et des autres adjacentes decouvertes par le Pilote de la Marine Imper. Ismaloff. Scale [ca. 2,200,000].