The exploration and discovery of Siberia and the northern territories: the contribution of the Delisle (de l’Isle) brothers

• Main Author: Gadal, Sébastien
• Other Authors: North-Eastern Federal University, Étude des Structures, des Processus d’Adaptation et des Changements de l’Espace (ESPACE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)-Avignon Université (AU)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UniCA), Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: Joseph-Nicolas Delisle; Louis Delisle de la Croyère; Cartography; Geography; Exploration; Siberia; Pacific Arctic; History; [SHS.STAT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Methods and statistics; [INFO.INFO-MO]Computer Science [cs]/Modeling and Simulation; [INFO.INFO-TI]Computer Science [cs]/Image Processing [eess.IV]; [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environment and Society; [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography; Arctic; Yakutsk; Pacific; Alaska
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03502236; https://hal.science/hal-03502236/document; https://hal.science/hal-03502236/file/RAS-YKS-0812SGadal_2021.pdf

International audience This research explores the contribution of the Delisle brothers –Joseph-Nicolas and Louis – to the geography, cartography, and the discovery of Eastern Siberia, the Bering passage, and the Pacific Arctic. Their contribution to the European geographic and cartographic sciences is inestimable; as well as for the Russian Empire. They created the first general map of Russia, made the first analytic description of the Russian geography (biogeographic, physical, and human), especially in the Caucasus, Siberia, and in the Far-Eastern Arctic territories including Alaska. Joseph-Nicolas Delisle created the first department of geography in Saint-Petersburg, an astronomic observatory, and supervised the researches of the next generation of famous French and Russian Academics in Astronomy and geography.