Talk:Great Northern Expedition

Merge proposal

I see no reason why this article should exist separately from the Second Kamchatka Expedition. The "concept of expedition" hardly deserves a separate article, and in fact in the Russian language literature the term Great Northern Expedition seems to be just a more common name for the endeavour, preferred over the Second Kamchatka Expedition. So the content from that article should be moved here, and the Second Kamchatka Expedition should be redirected here. Greyhood (talk) 17:06, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Seconded. --Ghirla^-трёп- 14:49, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Well, the merge is done. Greyhood (talk) 22:15, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

I just found this page and wondered at the large Background section which makes the page function like an all-inclusive page for the first and second expeditions. I haven't looked yet, but if there is a well-written First Expedition page, the large background section about the founding of the academy etc. should be shortened to links.--Paddling bear (talk) 15:51, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Missing 2nd half?

Half the article seems to be missing. There is a section describing what happend when one of the expedition members' fire went out, ending in a colon. This clearly implies more to follow - there is none. The story of the 2nd and 3rd parties in the expedition is also missing. Lot of work needed.1812ahill (talk) 22:34, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Maybe there's an earlier version of the page that went missing? or maybe it was just incompletely plagiarized from somewhere else?

In any case, you're right. The account of Martin Spanberg is entirely missing and should be added. He established the first Russian-Japanese diplomatic relations despite the country's isolationist policy at the time; dispelled the idea caused by Vries a century earlier that Company Land and Staten Island existed; and found—much to his own chagrin given the expedition's funding problems—that Rica de Oro and Rica de Plata were nowhere near where they had been said to be by the Spanish for even longer. He also mapped the Kurils accurately decades before the Japanese really came north and involved themselves, underpinning some of Russia's current claims to the island chain. — LlywelynII 23:25, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Additions to some sections

I will be adding information from Georg Steller's Manuscripts about his travels with Vitus Bering from 1741-1742. Sitekm2972 (talk) 17:33, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Formatting and additions

I will be reformating the "Background: first scientific investivation of Siberia and Bering's first expedition" and adding some information from Yanikov, G.V. (1952). Review of Velikaya Severnaya Ekspeditsiya (The Great Northern Expedition). Mjwalsh02 (talk) 04:25, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: History of Science

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 January 2023 and 5 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Sitekm2972, Mjwalsh02 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: El.Guapo6564, Ssegtf.

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