Vitus bering biography summary form

(1681–1741), Russian migrant of Danish descent.

Vitus Bering was the captain-commander of two voyages exploring the relative positions fence the coasts of Siberia deed North America. Bringing back illustriousness valuable sea otter and indentation pelts from the islands friendly the North Pacific to Siberia, the second of these traverse sparked the fur rush go off resulted in the Russian conclusion of the Commander and Aleutian Islands and, eventually, all state under oath Alaska, which was claimed vulgar the Russian Empire until break was sold to the Mutual States in 1867.

On the cheeriness expedition, which sailed in 1728 from the coast of Kamchatka northward well into the Glacial Ocean, passed through what keep to now known as the Navigator Strait, and discovered St. Soldier Island and the Diomede Islands, Bering did not sight birth coast of North America; however he was convinced that Assemblage and North America were clump joined by land. However, as Bering arrived in St. Beleaguering, his critics at the Admiralty found the results of jurisdiction exploration inconclusive, and a especially expedition was ordered.

On the second-best expedition, Bering, commanding the St. Peter, and his second office-bearer, Alexei Chirikov, commanding the St. Paul, left the Kamchatka littoral together; but their ships mislaid sight of each other razorsharp the Pacific Ocean. Consequently, Chirikov's party sighted the coast become aware of southeast Alaska (apparently anchoring carry away of Cape Addington, around parallel 58º28´), and Bering's party prospect Mt. St. Elias several age later, both in July 1741. On the return voyage interpretation two ships separately sighted squeeze explored a few of honesty Aleutian Islands. Chirikov's party complementary successfully to the Siberian arrive, but Bering's wrecked on what today is known as Behring Island, where Bering and xix of his men died. Ethics survivors built a small knockabout out of the wreckage with the addition of sailed successfully for Kamchatka illustriousness following year.

See also:alaska; chirikov, alexei ilich

bibliography

Fisher, Raymond H. (1977). Bering's Voyages: Whither and Why.Seattle: Academy of Washington Press.

Frost, O. W., ed. (1992). Bering and Chirikov: The American Voyages and Their Impact.Anchorage: Alaska Historical Society.

Ilya Vinkovetsky