Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:explorer
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Great_Northern_Expedition
gptkbp:baseOfOperations	gptkb:Okhotsk gptkb:Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
gptkbp:commander	gptkb:Vitus_Bering
gptkbp:discipline	geography natural history ethnography
gptkbp:endDate	1743
gptkbp:explores	gptkb:Alaska gptkb:Aleutian_Islands gptkb:Bering_Sea gptkb:Kuril_Islands gptkb:Kamchatka_Peninsula gptkb:Siberia
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition
gptkbp:legacy	expanded Russian knowledge of the North Pacific increased Russian interest in Alaska
gptkbp:notableEvent	first European landing on Alaska death of many crew members from scurvy shipwreck on Bering Island
gptkbp:notableParticipant	gptkb:Georg_Wilhelm_Steller gptkb:Martin_Spanberg gptkb:Aleksei_Chirikov gptkb:Stepan_Krasheninnikov
gptkbp:organizedBy	gptkb:Imperial_Russian_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:participants	over 5000
gptkbp:purpose	mapping of Siberian coast exploration of Siberia and North Pacific search for a land route to North America
gptkbp:result	discovery of Alaska death of Vitus Bering mapping of the Bering Strait scientific observations of flora and fauna
gptkbp:shipUsed	gptkb:St._Paul gptkb:St._Peter
gptkbp:sponsor	gptkb:Russian_Empire
gptkbp:startDate	1733
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Georg_Wilhelm_Steller
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6