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A bit earlier than your date, but it wasn't unknown for secrecy to prevail at least for some time. Here is a short excerpt from my ms. on Petr Bashmakov: Petr Bashmakov commanded one of the two ships built by the enterprising merchants Andrei Mikhailov Serebrinnikov of Moscow, Fedor Kholodilov from Tot’ma and Semen Krasil’nikov, Tula. The Ieremiia, with a crew of 34 and Cossack Maksim Lazarev along to collect yasak, sailed in July, 1753. Going east, they found some unknown islands. After anchoring there a while, a storm carried them out again and they saw four more islands. Since none of them knew how to calculate their position, they did not know where they were. Bashmakov couldn’t land because of the weather, and the storm kept carrying them east towards three more islands. On one of them they were wrecked. On shore there was a skirmish with Aleuts, but the Russians prevailed. They stayed on the island until June, 1754, built a small boat which they christened the Petr i Pavel and headed home, arriving in 1755. I am still wondering when the Dutch ships visited Unalaska Island in the Aleutians and left the name of Dutch Harbor which is used today. The Russians merely said a Dutch ship had anchored there. How did they know? Was it from a chart now missing? Any clues appreciated. Dee On Aug 5, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Paul van den Brink wrote: > This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the > whole list) > o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + > > > On April 17th 1764 a message appeared in several Dutch newspapers > narrating the results of a small 6-man Russian expedition (out of > Kamtschatka) into the Bering Sea. During this voyage sixteen unnamed > islands were discovered, most likely belonging to the Aleutian Islands > westward from the Alaska Peninsula. > > A (free) translated text follows below. Does someone know what expedition > is meant, if something is known about the map of the expedition and if > there are modern references? > > “From the letters of Saint Petersburg we read that a message from > Kamskatsch (Kamtschatka) has come in communicating that the six > inhabitants who four years undertook a voyage into the Polar Sea have > returned unexpectedly. All this time not the slightest was heard of them > and it was believed that they all had deceased. > The voyagers have reported that they, while following a North-Eastern > course, had discovered sixteen Islands. Two of those islands were visited > by them. While there was sufficient food they decided to stay there for > some time, what permitted to them to study the islands, the residents and > their habits. They conclude that the inhabitants of these islands are part > of the Nation of the Eskimos (Esquimeaux), because they closely resemble > the North American Indians along the shores of the Saint Lawrence River > and in Canada. The six voyagers have constructed a map, which is preserved > in the Russian Archives in Moscow”. > > Paul van den Brink > University of Utrecht > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography > hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. > The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of > the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of > Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for > the views of the author. > List Information: http://www.maphist.nl > > Maphist mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist Dee Longenbaugh The Observatory, ABAA 299 North Franklin Street Juneau, Alaska, 99801 www.observatorybooks.com [email protected] Since 1977 Alaska specialists > Lichen on the rock ignores a nearby lightning strike, and so it is > with cartographers. B.E.W. Allen
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