Discoveries of the World

Rauno LiivandCassandra Herne

http://ancientworldmaps.blogspot.com/2011/03/world-map-18th-century.html

Introduction to Estonian travelers•Most important way of travel was by sea.•First Russian round-the world trip on a

ship called Nadezda.•World’s oldest Society of Geography

consisted of: Karl Ernst von Baer, Friedrich Benjaminvon Lütke, Ferdinand von Wrangell, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve, Adam Johann von Krusenstern and Gregor von Helmersen.

Adam Johann von Krusenstern:

•First Trip in the Russian Empire•Great many information and tools were

brought to homeland Estonia•Laid the basis for a new sciance-

Oceanology•Final result of the expetidion- „Atlas of the

Southern Seas“•Buried in the Tallinn Dome Church

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apianus_(crater)#mediaviewer/File:Apianus_crater_4101_h1.jpg

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen:

•From Saaremaa-the largest island in Estonia

•First 1/3 men in history to see Antarctica•„Mirnõi“ and „Vostok“•Recieved new information about the

southern continent

http://redkalinka.com/Russian-Blog/84/_Russian-history-1st-week-of-March/

Ferdinand von Wrangell:

•A Baltic German admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, an Antarctic explorer

•Searched for islands in the Northern Sea; in 1867 discovered an island that was named after him as the Isle of Wrangler

• In 1825–1827 led a round-the-world expedition on "Krotki“

•Has an island, a mountain range, a bay and a cape in Alaska named after him.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/wrangel-island/reserve-map

Alexander Theodor von Middendorff

•Had Baltic German and Estonian roots.•A Russian bio-geographer, zoologist and

explorer.•1840 to Novaya Zemlya•1843-1845 to the Taymyr Peninsula.•A bay in Taimyr Peninsula and cape in

Novaya Zemlya as well as numerous plant and animal species have been named after him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodiak_bear#mediaviewer/File:2010-kodiak-bear-1.jpg

Varia.

Records show that two Estonians - Jakob Kukk and Hermann Regastik were travelling on the Titanic. An announcement of Jakob Kukk´s death was published in Estonian newspaper Postimees.

Hermann Regastik, whose name was not recorded in the official list of the crew, survived the disaster and later lived in England and New Zealand.

Thank you for listening.

Enjoy your stay.