Second Kamchatka expedition

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Second_Kamchatka_expedition

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:explorer
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Great_Northern_Expedition
gptkbp:baseOfOperations	gptkb:Okhotsk gptkb:Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
gptkbp:casualties	Vitus Bering died during expedition many crew members died of scurvy
gptkbp:documentedIn	scientific reports expedition journals
gptkbp:endDate	1743
gptkbp:explores	gptkb:Alaska gptkb:Arctic_Ocean gptkb:North_America gptkb:Pacific_Ocean gptkb:Kamchatka_Peninsula gptkb:Siberia
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Second Kamchatka expedition
gptkbp:ledTo	gptkb:Vitus_Bering
gptkbp:legacy	contributed to natural sciences influenced Russian colonization of Alaska inspired further exploration of the Pacific
gptkbp:notableMember	gptkb:Georg_Wilhelm_Steller gptkb:Martin_Spanberg gptkb:Aleksei_Chirikov gptkb:Gerhard_Friedrich_Müller gptkb:Johann_Georg_Gmelin gptkb:Louis_De_l'Isle_de_la_Croyère gptkb:Stepan_Krasheninnikov
gptkbp:organizedBy	gptkb:Russian_Empire
gptkbp:purpose	exploration of Siberia and North Pacific
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:First_Kamchatka_expedition gptkb:Bering_expedition
gptkbp:resultedIn	scientific research ethnographic studies discovery of Alaska mapping of Siberian coast natural history collections discovery of Aleutian Islands
gptkbp:shipUsed	gptkb:St._Paul gptkb:St._Peter
gptkbp:significance	expanded Russian territory increased European knowledge of North Pacific largest scientific expedition in history
gptkbp:sponsor	gptkb:Peter_the_Great gptkb:Empress_Anna_of_Russia
gptkbp:startDate	1733
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Martin_Spanberg
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6