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Vitus Bering, a Danish officer in the service of Peter the Great, led an expedition to eastern Siberia to determine the relationship of Asia to North America. Upon his return, several manuscript maps of this type were made.
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- Arctic Regions Maps Early Works to 1800 (1)
- Bering Strait Maps Early Works to 1800 (1)
- Bering, Vitus Jonassen, 1681 1741 (1)
- Kamchatskai︠a︡ Ėkspedit︠s︡ii︠a︡ (1St : 1725 1730) (1)
- Manuscript Maps (1)
- Manuscript Maps Specimens (1)
- Northeast Passage Early Works to 1800 (1)
- Russian Far East (Russia) Discovery and Exploration Maps Early Works to 1800 (1)
- Russian Far East (Russia) Maps Early Works to 1800 (1)
- Siberia (Russia) Discovery and Exploration Maps Early Works to 1800 (1)
- Siberia (Russia) Maps Early Works to 1800 (1)
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- Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:6,875,000 (E 65°--W 170°/N 73°--N 50°)Manuscript map, in brilliant colors, depicting the route followed by Bering in his first expedition to eastern Siberia in the years 1725-1730.Scale determined by using graticule method, measured at 55° north."There is a note by Delisle on one of the copies of ...
- Creator:
- Petr Avraamovich Chaplin, -1765; Vitus Jonassen Bering, 1681-1741
- Created:
- 1729
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-01-31