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.