Learning from Each Other: A History of Russian-native Contacts in Late Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Century Exploration and Mapping of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands

• Main Author: Postnikov, Alexey V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The International Hydrographic Review 2005
• Subjects: Hydrographes; Aléoutes; eskimo*; esquimaux; Îles Aléoutiennes; Islas Aleutianas; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ihr/article/view/20686

The paper discusses contacts between educated European hydrographers and the native population of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands during their exploration and occupation by the Russians (late XVIII c. - 1867). The author, on the basis of his studies in Russia, the USA and the United Kingdom has foun...