TABLE OF GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS DERIVED FROM BERING'S FIRST VOYAGE, REDUCED TO GREENWICH, E. LONGITUDE.


Meridian used in the original, Tobolsk. Tobolsk. Tobolsk. Ferro. Ferro. Greenwich.
Amount used for reduction, +67°. +67°. +67°. –18°. –18°.
Source of the data, Bering16 MS. Campbell.17 Du Halde. D'Anville. Müller. Modern charts.
Date, 1730? 1730? 1736. 1753. 1758. 1852-88.

° ' ° ' ° ' ° ' ° ' ° '
Okhotsk 58 54
141 30
59 13
143 07
58 54
141 20
— —
— —
59 20
141 15
59 2018
142 40
Bolsheretsk, Kamchatka 52 35
155 28
52 42
156 51
52 40
155 25
52 40
155 30
52 5419
156 3020
52 51
156 50
Upper Kamchatka settlement 54 10
157 10
54 48
158 00
54 10
157 15
53 40
156 30
54 28
156 55
— —
— —
Lower Kamchatka settlement 55 46
159 28
56 11
162 3021
55 50
159 15
56 05
159 00
56 20
159 30
56 15
162 15
Cape, at Kamchatka river-mouth 55 52
162 05
56 03
163 1022
55 40
162 10
56 00
159 20
56 10
160 20
56 00
163 05
Cape Thaddeus (Navarin) 61 50
176 05
62 20
178 3223
62 00
176 00
62 05
171 14
62 25
175 20
62 15
179 02
West point, entrance Holy Cross Bay 65 16
179 40
65 35
182 1524
65 15
180 0025
65 15
175 10
65 30
178 45
65 28
181 12
Mouth of river, Holy Cross Bay 66 00
179 40
— —
— —
65 50
179 50
65 45
175 00
66 15
178 15
66 22
180 45
Transfiguration Bay (east entrance) 64 45
185 15
65 01
187 30
64 40
185 10
64 25
180 00
— —
— —
64 45
185 15
Cape Chukotski, of Bering 63 55
186 55
64 25
189 5526
64 02
186 10
64 10
181 10
64 35
185 10
64 14
186 50
N. W. point St. Lawrence Id. 63 50
187 00
64 00
189 55
64 02
187 20
64 00
181 20
64 15
186 05
63 5227
188 27
St. Demetrius Id. (Big Diomede) 65 42
189 0528
66 00
192 4229
— —
— —
66 00
183 2028
— —
— —30
65 50
190 25
East Cape of Asia 66 40
189 40
67 18
193 0731
66 45
189 45
66 30
184 00
66 45
187 25
66 05
190 30
Bering's farthest not
indicated.
67 18
193 0732
— —
— —
— —
— —
66 4533
187 25
— —
— —
Petropavlovsk, Avacha Bay 53 10
160 02
53 12
159 50
53 15
157 00
52 50
158 55
52 5534
158 13
53 02
158 3935
Cape Uskoi, or Lopatka36 50 50
155 05
51 10
156 51
51 10
155 10
51 20
156 00
51 2037
157 00
50 52
156 47

16 This column is taken directly from Baron Klinckofström's manuscript copy of Bering's chart.

17 Date of Campbell's Harris' Voy., 1748; date of table of positions, 1728; fide Campbell, 1021, col. 2.

18 The positions in this column are taken from the most recent charts of the U. S. Coast Survey and the U. S. and Russian Hydrographic bureaux.

19 Determined in 1741 by Krassilnikoff to be 52° 55' and 156° 24' E. Gr.

20 From the chart; on p. 114 Müller has 156° 10'.

21 Campbell has 98° 30' E. of Tobolsk, an error(?), for 95° 30' (=162° 30' E. Gr.). Bering omits this position.

22 Campbell's confusion of two entries is here corrected from Bering's Report.

23 Confused with preceding entry by Campbell.