Instruction of Peter I to Vitus Bering – well-known directions of Peter the Great, written himself in January 1725 a few weeks before his death, to Vitus Bering prior to the First Kamchatka Expedition. It says:
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“At Kamchatka or somewhere else one or two decked boats are to be built.
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With these you are to sail northward along the coast, and (as the end of the coast is not known) this land is expected to be part of America.
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For this reason you are to inquire where this land meets America, and go to some city of European dominium; and when European ships are seen you are to ask what the coast is called, note it down, make a landing, obtain reliable information, and then, after having charted the coast, return.”
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(2016). Instruction of Peter I to Vitus Bering. In: Zonn, I.S., Kostianoy, A.G., Semenov, A.V. (eds) The Eastern Arctic Seas Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia of Seas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24237-8_219
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