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Joseph Billings

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British-Russian explorer

ScientistsLived 1758 to 1806 · aged 48
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Joseph Billings was an English navigator, hydrographer and explorer who spent the most of his career in Russian service. From 1790 to 1794 he commanded a marine expedition that searched for a Northeast Passage and explored the coasts of Alaska and Siberia.

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Map of the northeastern part of Siberia, of the Arctic Sea, of the Pacific Ocean, and of the northwestern coast of America with the route of the ships under Captain Billings' command. (1806)Map of the northeastern part of Siberia, of the Arctic Sea, of the Pacific Ocean, and of the northwestern coast of America with the route of the ships under Captain Billings' command. (1806)

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Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class

Scientists born in the 1750s 6

Carl Ludwig Hablitz43.1Barnaba Oriani42.9Johann Tobias Lowiz43.2Georg Heinrich Weber42.6Samuel Bentham43.3James Price42.6

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Joseph Billings was an English navigator, hydrographer and explorer who spent the most of his career in Russian service. From 1790 to 1794 he commanded a marine expedition that searched for a Northeast Passage and explored the coasts of Alaska and Siberia. Between 1797 and 1798 he conducted a hydrographic survey of the Black Sea.

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Lived 1758 to 1806 · aged 48
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