Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Baltic German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer (1778–1852)
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Lived 1778–1852, aged 74
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He captained the expedition that first laid eyes on Antarctica in January 1820, disproving Cook's claim that no land existed in the southern ice. Bellingshausen and his crew circled the continent twice without ever losing sight of each other's ships.
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Born in 1778 on Saaremaa, Bellingshausen entered the Russian Baltic Fleet and earned a spot on Russia's first circumnavigation of the globe in 1803–1806, sailing under Krusenstern aboard the Nadezhda. He returned to publish maps of newly explored Pacific waters, then commanded vessels in the Baltic and Black Sea Fleets. In 1819, as a respected cartographer, he was given command of a southern expedition with Mikhail Lazarev as second: on 27 January 1820, they became the first to see the Antarctic landmass, naming Peter I, Zavodovski, Leskov, Alexander, and Visokoi Islands along the way. Promote…
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