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pl23_map00351.jpg

Map showing expeditions through Bering Strait and into the Asiatic and AmericanIce Sea (present day Chukchi and Beaufort Seas

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Map showing expeditions through Bering Strait and into the Asiatic and AmericanIce Sea (present day Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Map shows expeditionroutes of various explorers from 1648-1867. Depths in fathoms. Curiouslysignificantly more sounding information on this map than the contemporaneousKara Sea map shown in map00349. Published in Petermann's Geographische 1869.

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Voyage to Inner Space