First Kamchatka expedition
01/09/1725 AD commissioned
The First Kamchatka expedition is the first Russian expedition to explore the Asian Pacific coast and is her first naval scientific expedition.
It is led by Vitus Bering between 1725 to 1731, and would confirm the presence of a strait (now known as Bering Strait) between Asia and America.
Saint Petersburg
Lattitude: 59.9343° N
Longitude: 30.3351° E
Region: Russia and Eastern Bloc
Modern Day Russia
Lattitude: 59.9343° N
Longitude: 30.3351° E
Region: Russia and Eastern Bloc
Modern Day Russia
Subjects Who or What commissioned?
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Peter the Great (Peter I, Pyotr Alekseevich) Tsar / Emperor of All Ru...
Objects To Whom or What was commissioned?
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Vitus Bering (Ivan Ivanovich Bering) Danish cartographer and ...
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