Joseph Billings

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

Joseph Billings (c. 1758—1806) was an English navigator and explorer.

In 1785, the Russian government of Catherine II commissioned a new expedition in search for the Northeast Passage, led by English officer Joseph Billings, who had previously sailed with Captain Cook, and the Russian officer Gavril Sarychev as his deputy. This enterprise operated till 1795.

Though considered a failure because the expenditures outweighed the results, it nevertheless had a substantial record of achievement. Accurate maps were made of the Chukchi Peninsula in Eastern Siberia, the west coast of Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands. Members of the expedition landed on Kodiak Island and made an examination of the islands and mainlands of Prince William Sound.

[edit] External link


This article about an explorer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../j/o/s/Joseph_Billings_ca9d.html"
In other languages