Anjou, Petr Fedorovich (1796–1869)

Anjou, Petr Fedorovich (1796–1869) – an admiral and explorer of the Arctic, the Caspian, and the Aral seas. In 1814 he graduated from Marine Cadet Corps. He served in the Baltic Fleet. In 1815 he was promoted and became midshipman. In 1817 Petr Anjou traveled to Spain (Cadiz) from Kronstadt. In the period from 1820 to 1823 in command of Ust-Yanskaya Expedition, he described the northern coast of East Siberia between the rivers Olenyok and Indigirka. He also was the first to map the New Siberian Islands. Petr Anjou traveled 10,000 km in dog sledges in winter and about 4,000 km riding a horse or in a boat in summer thus proving that the coast can be described from the sea and from the frozen sea surface in winter. He was the first to study drift and pack ice in the Laptev Sea, the dominating currents and winds, day and seasonal fluctuation of air and water temperature, and soil character and made measurements of the depths and determined the magnetic declination and magnetic dip and...