Discoveries by the Russian Empire in Kamchatka and the Coast of North America
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Title:
Discoveries by the Russian Empire in Kamchatka and the Coast of North America
Subject:
Nouvelle Carte des Decouvertes faites par des Vaisseaux Russiens Aux côtes inconnues de l'Amerique Septentrionale Avec les Pais adiacents: Dressée sur des memoires authentiques de ceux qui ont assisté a ces decouvertes, et sur d'autres Connoissances.
Description:
This map shows the northeastern section of the Russian Empire in considerable detail, in great contrast with what was known (and yet unknown) about the northwest coast of North America. This map, based on the Second Kamchatka Expedition led by Vitus Bering, more accurately depicts the Aleutian Islands than in previous maps, but still treats the mainland of North America as a largely unknown and uncharted entity.
L'Académie impériale des sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg
[Saint Petersburg, Russia] ;
Date:
1784
Contributor:
Gerard Fridrikh Miller (Gerhard Friedrich Müller; Фёдор Ива́нович Ми́ллер; Fyodor Ivanovich Miller) - One of the academics from the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences tasked with studying Siberia and gathering data for the creation of maps.
Paolo Santini, after Philippe Buache/Joseph Nicolas de L'Isle; after Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy
