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Re: Mid XIX century? Nav
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Nov 20, 13:18 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Nov 20, 13:18 -0500
Bruce, > Also interesting, to me at least, is that he uses WEST longitude, as if he'd > come into the Pacific around the Horn. Could that be the case? Not knowing > anything about his voyage, it doesn't seem likely to me. Yes. Krusenstern and Lisianski made the first Russian circumnavigation, on two ships. They left Kronstadt in 1803, and proceeded by Cape Horn and Sandwich Islands to Kamchatka and then to Japan. Returning by Cape of Good Hope they completed the circumnavigation in 1806. In his publications, Krusenstern advocated the trade communication with China by going around the Cape Horn. Alex.