Vitus Bering (1681-1741)
Bering was asked by Peter the Great to lead the 100-man First Kamchatka Expedition, 1725-1729. In 1782 he navigated up Anian (Bering) Strait to 67 18' N, in the process discovering St. Lawrence Island and the two Diomedes. The Second Kamchatka Expedition, 1733-1742, again under Bering's le...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65400 2023-05-15T14:19:16+02:00 Vitus Bering (1681-1741) Gibson, James R. 1982-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65400 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65400/49314 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65400 ARCTIC; Vol. 35 No. 3 (1982): September: 349–455; 438-439 1923-1245 0004-0843 Bering Vitus Jonassen 1681-1741 Biographies Expeditions Explorers First Kamchatka Expedition 1725-1729 Fur trade History Russians in Alaska Second Kamchatka Expedition 1733-1742 Alaska Gulf of Aleutian Islands Bering Sea Kommandorskiye Ostrova Russian Federation St. Lawrence Island info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion other 1982 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:31Z Bering was asked by Peter the Great to lead the 100-man First Kamchatka Expedition, 1725-1729. In 1782 he navigated up Anian (Bering) Strait to 67 18' N, in the process discovering St. Lawrence Island and the two Diomedes. The Second Kamchatka Expedition, 1733-1742, again under Bering's leadership, finally set sail June 1741 on the St. Peter and the St. Paul. Although these ships became permanently separated from each other by a storm early in their voyage, they both made separate landfalls on the Gulf of Alaska coast. The St. Peter was wrecked on Bering Island in the Commander group. The crew was forced to winter there and Bering, among others, died of scurvy and hypothermia. The survivors, who constructed a ship from the remains of the St. Peter, returned to Petropavlovsk, to which Captain Chirikov had returned aboard the St. Paul the previous fall. Although it cost him his life, Bering had succeeded in laying the basis for Russia's claim to the "big land". The 2000 sea otter pelts that his expedition brought back sparked a fur rush which resulted in the establishment of the Russian-American Company in 1799. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Bering Island Bering Sea Bering Strait Kamchatka St Lawrence Island Alaska Aleutian Islands University of Calgary Journal Hosting Bering Sea Bering Strait Gulf of Alaska Lawrence Island ENVELOPE(-103.718,-103.718,56.967,56.967) Petropavlovsk ENVELOPE(158.626,158.626,53.067,53.067) Ostrova ENVELOPE(40.445,40.445,64.576,64.576) Jonassen ENVELOPE(-56.717,-56.717,-63.533,-63.533) ARCTIC 35 3 |
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Bering was asked by Peter the Great to lead the 100-man First Kamchatka Expedition, 1725-1729. In 1782 he navigated up Anian (Bering) Strait to 67 18' N, in the process discovering St. Lawrence Island and the two Diomedes. The Second Kamchatka Expedition, 1733-1742, again under Bering's leadership, finally set sail June 1741 on the St. Peter and the St. Paul. Although these ships became permanently separated from each other by a storm early in their voyage, they both made separate landfalls on the Gulf of Alaska coast. The St. Peter was wrecked on Bering Island in the Commander group. The crew was forced to winter there and Bering, among others, died of scurvy and hypothermia. The survivors, who constructed a ship from the remains of the St. Peter, returned to Petropavlovsk, to which Captain Chirikov had returned aboard the St. Paul the previous fall. Although it cost him his life, Bering had succeeded in laying the basis for Russia's claim to the "big land". The 2000 sea otter pelts that his expedition brought back sparked a fur rush which resulted in the establishment of the Russian-American Company in 1799. |
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ARCTIC; Vol. 35 No. 3 (1982): September: 349–455; 438-439 1923-1245 0004-0843 |
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