Great Northern Expedition (Second Kamchatka Expedition)
Gran Expedición del Norte (Segunda Expedición a Kamchatka)
- Date
- 1733-1743 · confidence high
- Place
- Okhotsk, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia
- Credited to
- Vitus Bering, Aleksei Chirikov and the parties of Semyon Chelyuskin and the Laptev brothers
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A Russian expedition of thousands of people that mapped nearly all Siberia's Arctic coast from Arkhangelsk to the Bering Strait and reached the northernmost cape of Eurasia. It was the largest mapping operation of its time.
The complete Arctic voyage was not made in one go; it was split into legs and the eastern ones were never closed. The location is Bering and Chirikov's departure base.
What it led to
- accurate outlines of Siberia's Arctic shore
- Russian exploration of the North Pacific and arrival in Alaska