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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (6905)	7/6/2006 8:28:55 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Who knows? Nobody mapped them in 1700. European Exploration of the Coast The English, Spanish and French governments were all eager to share in the taking of this rich territory. The British dispatched Captain James Cook to Alaska in 1778, where he completed the first systematic survey of the coastline, from 58 degrees to 70 degrees north latitude. He established that there was no land connection between the Asian and North American continents, and his expedition produced maps that set the navigation standard for the next century. The Russian Empress Catherine, unnerved at this intensive British survey of territory she considered her own, ordered Cook's journal translated into Russian as soon as it was published.... ===== Russian documents from the time indicate that Bering's explorations of Alaska were not made for the purely scientific purposes of survey and mapping. pbs.org 1791-1795 British Captain George Vancouver explores Northwest Coast exhaustively with two ships, but finds no Northwest Passage 1799 - Aleksandr Baranov consolidates Russian possession of Alaska with fort and trading base at Sitka. Two French ships visit Alaska - one reaching Frenchman's Bay and the other Sitka Bay. rootsweb.com