First Kamchatka expedition
The First Kamchatka Expedition was a research and discovery journey carried out between 1728 and 1730 under the direction of the Danish naval officer Vitus Bering (1681–1741), which the Russian Tsar Peter I had initiated and planned in the spirit of the Enlightenment.
The tasks of the expedition included establishing the eastern border of the Russian Empire and proving a land connection between Asia and America. The expedition set out from St. Petersburg in March 1725 and reached Kamchatka by land in 1728. Bering discovered St. Lawrence Island and sailed the Bering Strait without sighting the American mainland. He was unable to provide evidence of a land bridge. Nor could he map the Chukchi Peninsula . On his return in March 1730, the Academy of Sciences was disappointed with the results.
For the prehistory and the course see prehistory of the Second Kamchatka Expedition , which Bering suggested for his rehabilitation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detlef Brinkmann: From Kamchatka to Alaska. In: Deutsche Schiffahrt 1.2015, p. 2 f.