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Drake Strait and Lisyansky Island, Cape Chelyuskin and Livingston Falls, Australian Tasmania and Hudson Bay... Naming the places where the ships of legendary travelers ended up many years ago, we will admire the daredevils who left their names on geographical maps for centuries.

Wrangel Island

Flag Russian Empire The crew of the Vaigach icebreaker raised the island in 1911. However, it was not Russian polar explorers who discovered it, but the British explorer Henry Kellett, who in 1849 passed by on a ship, but did not land on the shore. The island got its name in honor of Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel - admiral, navigator, polar explorer who studied the northeast coast of Siberia and West Coast North America from the Bering Strait to California, was the ruler of Russian America and actively opposed the sale of Alaska to the United States.

Wrangel Island, lost on the far north, in the Arctic Ocean, has been under the protection of UNESCO since 2004. Last glacial period bypassed it, so today there are as many rare animals and plants as there are on any Arctic island in the world. Even willows grow here, however, dwarf ones, no more than a meter high. Its real owners are walruses, polar bears and geese. Scientists say that it is on these shores that one of the largest walrus rookeries in the Arctic is quartered - up to 130 thousand individuals. On Wrangel itself and the neighboring tiny Herald, there is the largest number of "maternity" polar bear dens in the world - from 300 to 500.

Strait of Magellan

In 1520 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan made several geographical discoveries. The first and main of these was the opening of a 575-kilometer strait between the islands at the southern tip South America and the mainland itself. The search for the strait took a lot of time: Magellan studied more than two thousand kilometers of the coast, looking out for the treasured sea corridor among the endless bays and bays. Before embarking on the “wintering”, Magellan mistook the mouth of the La Plata River for the strait, but soon realized that he was mistaken.

Only months later, Magellan's flotilla ended up at a narrow strait that led deep into the mainland. The ships passed it in 38 days, and the Portuguese did not lose a single ship during this difficult journey. Having explored the strait, Magellan at the same time discovered the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, and also gave the name to the ocean in which he found himself - Pacific (the voyage took place in good weather).

Mount Fitzroy

British Navy officer Robert Fitzroy went down in history as an explorer of unfriendly southern shores Latin America, and also as the person who discovered Charles Darwin to the world. It was him, a 23-year-old graduate of the University of Cambridge, that Fitzroy took with him on a trip around the world on the Beagle ship and allowed him to collect huge scientific material during the trip.

On December 27, 1831, the ship left Portsmouth and set sail. On board the Beagle was a team of 70 people, as well as three Indians, whom Fitzroy had taken to England during a previous expedition to get acquainted with civilization, and now he wanted to return to their homeland. Having reached the shores of South America, the ship spent more than three years off its coast. Fitzroy did a great cartographic work, mapped numerous islands off the eastern and western coasts of the mainland, explored the Strait of Magellan and Patagonia.

It's funny that Robert Fitzroy, during his journey, never saw the mountain that today bears his name. Almost 40 years after his voyage to the South American peak in the wilds of Patagonia, the Argentine traveler Francisco Moreno came across. He decided to name the picturesque peak 3375 meters high in honor of the famous British explorer.

Cape Dezhnev

Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev in 1648 rounded the Chukotka Peninsula from the north and proved that it was possible to get from Europe to China through northern seas. He passed through the strait separating America from Eurasia 80 years earlier than Vitus Bering, but since little was known about Russian pioneers in the Old World at that time, Bering got fame. However, in 1879, restoring justice, the Swedish Arctic explorer Niels Nordenskiöld named the extreme eastern point of Eurasia after the Russian navigator. Until that time, the cape was called Vostochny.

Cape Dezhnev is one of the most brutal places on the Chukotka Peninsula. Here the rocks are piled one on top of the other, there are often fogs and a piercing wind is constantly blowing. However, despite the remoteness from civilization, there are sights in these places: the lighthouse named after Semyon Dezhnev and the old cross, installed nearby, the abandoned settlement of whalers of the 18th-20th centuries - Naukan (it was disbanded under Soviet rule). However, those who climb into these parts go to look at unique fauna: countless bird markets are located here, there is a walrus and seal rookery, in spring you can see polar bears with cubs. Sometimes killer whales and gray whales swim close to the shore.

Mount Cook

The highest peak in New Zealand (3754 meters) is located on the South Island, in national park Aoraki Mount Cook. This is the land of endless valleys, glaciers, lakes and the Southern Alps (so called mountain range stretching from south to north). The air here is so cold and fresh that it burns the lungs. The weather is changeable: sometimes the sun shines brightly, sometimes it drizzles. Dozens of wild flower species grow in the foothills, and a few meters higher, on mountain slopes, the ground is covered with an ice crust and a layer of snow.

The mountain is named after one of the most famous navigators who ever lived, James Cook. An English explorer visited the coast of New Zealand during his first world travel in 1768-1771. He opened the strait between the North and southern islands(bears his name) and proved that New Zealand- these are two independent pieces of land, and not part of an unknown mainland.

Ratmanov Island

Ratmanov Island is located in Bering Strait and represents big rock with a flat top covered with a cap of snow. This is the most eastern point Russia, from where, in good weather, you can see the coast of Alaska. There is no special life here, except that the border guards are on duty, and buffy hummingbirds fly in to stay during the migration, which are heading for California.

The name of the island has changed several times. At first, it bore the name Imaklik - that was the name of the Eskimos who once lived here. Another name is Big Diomede (“big diomeid”, as the Americans say). There is also Little Diomede (or Krusenstern Island), it is a neighbor of Ratmanov Island and belongs to the USA. The name of Diomede was given to the archipelago by Vitus Bering, who in August 1728 ended up in these parts on his boat "Saint Gabriel". 90 years later, the waters of the Bering Strait were plied by the navigator Otto Kotzebue, who decided to name Big Diomede after his colleague, naval officer Makar Ratmanov, with whom he participated in the circumnavigation.

Bering Strait

The strait, along which the water border between Russia and the United States passes and which separates the continents of Eurasia and North America, is named after Vitus Bering, an officer of the Russian fleet of Danish origin. In the XVIII century, he led two expeditions to Kamchatka, discovered several Aleutian Islands. Bering passed through this strait in 1728, the first European navigator.

The width of the strait at its narrowest point is only 86 kilometers, and desperate daredevils periodically try to overcome this distance by boat or by swimming. Most often, their plans are frustrated due to bad weather. In the summer of 2012, Philippe Croison, a French disabled athlete without arms and legs, swam across a 4-kilometer section of the strait between Kruzenshtern Island and Ratmanov Island.

Drake Passage

The strait connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean is the widest on Earth. Even its narrow part is more than 800 kilometers. In the north it washes the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, in the south it borders on Antarctica, more precisely on the Southern Shetland Islands. The famous English pirate Francis Drake discovered this strait. It was he who first sailed through it in 1578 on the ship "Golden Doe", thus making the second trip around the world after Magellan.

The Drake Passage is a very dangerous place for sailors, it is replete with whirlpools, bad weather often rages in it and severe storms occur. To defeat him, you have to be very brave. Such, for example, as Fedor Konyukhov. In 2010 Russian traveler at the head round the world expedition sailed through it for the sixth time.

Hudson Bay

This huge water area in the north of Canada is called the Canadian Inland Sea due to the fact that the bay goes deep into the country. It is noteworthy that Hudson Bay belongs to both the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic.

Sebastian Cabot was the first to visit here at the beginning of the 16th century. A hundred years later, in 1611, the bay was rediscovered by Henry Hudson under tragic circumstances. Going on another expedition in search of northern route to Asia, Hudson encountered a mutiny on the ship. The sailors took possession of the ship and turned back, and he, with his son and other members of the crew, who probably supported the Hudson, were put on a rowboat, leaving them no supplies. More about destiny legendary navigator nothing is known. It is believed that he disappeared in the icy expanses of the bay, deservedly named after him.

Lisyansky Island

This little Pacific island in the northwest Hawaiian archipelago It was discovered during Ivan Krusenstern's round-the-world trip in 1805. It was named after the captain of the Neva sloop Fyodor Lisyansky, who participated in the expedition. Until the beginning of the 20th century, guano was mined here - fertilizer from litter. Since 1909, the island, at the initiative of Theodore Roosevelt, became part of the Hawaiian Bird Sanctuary.

Not far from Lisyansky Island is a giant coral reef with an area of ​​979 square kilometers called "Neva Shoals", or "Neva Shoals" (Neva Shoals), which got its name because of the Neva vessel, on which Lisyansky and his team sailed. It was they who first discovered this reef, stumbling upon it and miraculously not breaking. It is here, in the Neva Shoals area, that you can see the most beautiful coral colonies, for which the reef is called the “coral garden”.

Thaddeus Islands

The Thaddeus Islands are named after the discoverer of Antarctica, Thaddeus Faddeevich Bellingshausen. They are located off the eastern coast of the Taimyr Peninsula. This group of islands was discovered in 1736 by members of the Great Northern Expedition, or rather, by the detachment of Vasily Pronchishchev, a Russian polar explorer. They were moving on wooden ship along northeast coast Taimyr, at the risk of getting stuck in the ice, and made a description coastline. Together with Pronchishchev, his wife Tatyana also traveled. True, unofficially. However, she became the first female member of the Arctic expeditions.

There is a version that the islands were found much earlier, in 1689, when Ivan Tolstoukhov, the first explorer of Taimyr, went to study these lands. However, his ship was crushed by ice. According to scientists, people then landed on the Thaddeus Islands, having managed to save the most valuable and necessary things from the ship. From the islands, they crossed the frozen sea to the mainland, where they built a hut from driftwood. But none of the members of Tolstoukhov's expedition could survive. That is why nothing was known about the islands before Pronchishchev's campaign.

Cape Chelyuskin

Man first reached Cape Chelyuskin in 1742. Then the expedition led by Semyon Ivanovich Chelyuskin named the Cape East-Northern. It took place as part of the Great Northern Expedition, which was approved by the Admiralty Board, which considered that it was necessary to explore in detail the north of Russia from Pechora to Chukotka and make a description of those places. In honor of Semyon Chelyuskin, a polar navigator and explorer of the north of Russia, the cape was named already in 1842, when the centenary of his expedition was celebrated.

The most north point The Taimyr Peninsula has a harsh climate. Winter here is year-round, the snow practically does not melt, and the temperature in July and August usually does not exceed +1C°. In 1932, a polar station was equipped on the cape, to which an observatory was later added. Now the station has been transferred to the status of a meteorological station. About 10 people constantly winter on it. Communication with the mainland and civilization is provided by the Cape Chelyuskin airfield with a helipad.

Livingston Falls

Livingston Falls - a system of rapids and waterfalls, stretching for 350 kilometers on the Congo River, in its lower reaches. This cascading water fall system is considered the world's largest in terms of water flow per second. The level difference of the river here is 270 meters.

Waterfalls end in the main seaport Republic of the Congo - Matadi, who founded the English journalist, traveler, African explorer Henry Morton Stanley. He also named the waterfalls he found in the Congo in honor of David Livingston, a Scotsman, an outstanding explorer of Africa. Having spent on this continent most of his life, Livingston walked along it on foot for a total of about 50 thousand kilometers! At the same time, it is curious that he never saw the system of thresholds discovered by Stanley, since he studied only upstream Congo.

The most visited of the entire Livingston water cascade system is the Inga waterfall, 96 meters high. Helicopter rides are organized here, and the especially brave pass through the rapids of the Congo in kayaks, canoes and even rafts. You can also participate in hiking trails with guides recreating the path of Henry Morton Stanley, but this requires good physical fitness and appropriate equipment.

tasmania island

The island of Tasmania, located off the coast of Australia, has opened Dutch navigator Abel Tasman back in 1642. True, the sailors did not go ashore then, but after walking a few miles, they turned east and a few days later ended up off the coast of New Zealand. Here they had their first and, at the same time, bloody meeting with the Maori natives, during which several sailors died. The expedition continued, and the islands of Fiji and Tonga were soon discovered. However, the leadership of the East India Company recognized the expedition as unsuccessful, since new trade routes weren't found. And Australia, New Zealand and the island of Tasmania were forgotten for another 100 years. While in these southern lands the famous navigator James Cook did not reach. The island got its real name almost 200 years later, in 1856.

Today, a good half of the island of Tasmania - protected area with national parks and fields where opium is grown legally for the pharmaceutical industry. There are hundreds of tales about strangely behaving birds and dancing kangaroos, but one thing is clear - the poppy fields here are very beautiful in any weather.
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I always loved geography and history in school. I read a lot of books about travelers and about their finds, watched films, was interested in scientific discoveries. I was surprised by the people who went on all sorts of expeditions. Particularly struck Russian commander Vitus Bering. In my opinion, he was a strikingly unique person.

Bering - Russian Dane

Bering Ivan Ivanovich (this is in Russia, but in fact Vitus Jonassen), although he was born and studied in Denmark, became an officer in the Russian fleet. He lived during reign of Peter I when the Russian fleet began to develop and new lands began to be developed. It was Peter who sent Bering's first expedition to the east to find an isthmus between the continents: ours and North America. This same Vitas, traveling for two years with the first scientific marine expedition, made a map and wrote eastern north of Asia.

What geographical features are named after Bering

It was a sin not to name such a discoverer some geographic features . And so:

Some plants of Kamchatka, streets in cities, Chukchi village, plane, ship, university. His name became brand even Danish hours.

In 1970, a film (practically, a biography) “The Ballad of Bering and His Friends” was shot about the navigator. With the discoveries of Bering and his expeditions, stamps and coins were issued.

In addition, there are other places that are named after Bering's ships or the names of his associates:

• Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky(in honor of the ships "St. Peter" and "St. Paul");
• Shumaginsky Islands(belong to America, named after a sailor who died on the expedition);
• St. Lawrence Island(Bering so named him in honor of the day of this saint. It was on this day that Bering arrived on the island).

Just an amazing person was this navigator and discoverer. Even died on the expedition.

They discovered new places and gave them names themselves, in other cases they decided to immortalize the discoverers in geographical name rest. One way or another, there are quite a few similar names on the map. Studying them is very interesting and even useful, especially if you are planning a vacation and want to choose the most original route.

Mount Cook

The history of the geographical discoveries of this navigator is quite tragic - he died in one of his voyages. His memory is preserved by the mountain of the same name, which is also known as Aoraki. It is located in the western part of the island in New Zealand, in places so well studied by the English traveler. Origin of names geographical objects often directly related to their discoverer, a similar case here - James Cook really visited this mountain. This highest point Southern Alps 3754 meters high, covered with glaciers and snow and shaped like a saddle and steep slopes. Since 1953, the area around it has been considered a National Park, preserving protected species of vegetation and unique landscape. Here you can meet unique kea, alpine parrots, as well as skates and wagtails.

Strait of Magellan

Geographical features named after travelers can also be found in Southern Patagonia. The Strait of Magellan is the one that separates South America from the archipelago. Tierra del Fuego. Its length is five hundred and seventy-five kilometers, and the smallest depth is twenty meters. The strait is named after the traveler who was the first European to cross it during his journey around the world. This happened in 1520. What is interesting: great geographical discoveries are also associated with this area (grade 7 studies this historical period, it is known to almost everyone), and it was here that Magellan discovered Cape St. Ursula. He named the strait in honor of the feast of All Saints, but the Spanish king renamed it in honor of the discoverer and his feat, accomplished in October 1520.

Drake Passage

Geographical objects named after travelers are associated with the most important events in world history. For example, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean s. It is the widest in the world, measuring over eight hundred kilometers at its narrowest points. The current of the West Winds flows along the strait, due to which strong storms constantly occur here with waves up to fifteen meters high. You can also see drifting ice here. In addition, the strait contains the most south point mainland South America, the legendary Cape Horn. It is named after an English navigator who first sailed here in 1578. The great geographical discoveries (the 7th grade passes them as part of the main program) were made before the appearance of this traveler, but his contribution still cannot be underestimated.

City of Livingston

There are various geographic features named after travelers, but they are all usually rivers, seas, or straits. There are few cities of this kind, and Livingston is one of them. It is located in Zambia, near famous waterfall Victoria. The history of geographical discoveries of the scientist is small, he made a greater contribution to the study of the customs of the local inhabitants, having arrived in Africa as a missionary. Until 1935, the city was the capital of the country, and now it is simply popular with tourists who are attracted by the nearby national park Mosi-ao-Tunya. There are many in Livingston interesting entertainment: from quad biking to elephant safari. In addition, there are many amazing museums that also attract a considerable number of tourists.

Laptev sea

Geographical objects named after travelers are also associated with Russian explorers. For example, the Laptev Sea, located in northern Siberia, next to It was named after Russian explorers of the North Pole, who were cousins. Prior to receiving the name perpetuating the Laptevs, the sea was known under the name of Nordenskiöld. This territory is distinguished by a cold climate with almost constant temperatures below zero. The sea has low salinity and is covered with ice for nine months of the year. Almost no people live on the shores, and the flora and fauna are extremely scarce. In ancient times, the tribes of Yukagirs, Evens and Evenks lived here, who lived off fishing and reindeer herding. Development by Russian travelers began in the seventeenth century. There are dozens of islands in the Laptev Sea, untouched by man. On some, the remains of mammoths were found. Biggest locality territory - the village of Tiksi.

Bering Strait

Geographic features named after travelers are most often water features. Here comes from the North Arctic Ocean to the Quiet, is just such. It separates Asia from North America, namely the capes - Dezhnev from the Prince of Wales. The smallest depth of the strait is thirty-six meters, and the minimum width is eighty-six kilometers. The name is associated with Bering, a native of Denmark, who passed here in 1728. Before him, the territory was studied by Semyon Dezhnev, after whom the Chukchi Cape, the easternmost point of Asia, was named. In the center of the strait are the Diomede Islands, there are two of them. The first is a large one, Ratmanova. The second one is smaller. The first one is owned Russian Federation, and the second - the United States of America, separates them about four kilometers. In addition, there is a border of time zones between them and

From time to time, the possibility of building a tunnel or bridge that would connect Alaska and Chukotka is discussed at the government level, but the plans never go to the stage of implementation due to various reasons, both economic and technical. However, there is a possibility that in the future such a project will still be implemented with the cooperation of specialists from Russia and the United States.

Travelers and adventurers have played a huge role in the discovery and development of entire continents, islands and remote areas of land. And today many of the geographical objects bear the names of their discoverers.

Continents and islands named after travelers

Until the end of the fifteenth century, the civilized world knew only about two continents, which were Eurasia and Africa. However, even the territories of these continents have not been fully explored and mapped. In the fifteenth century sailing ships began to develop sharply, and navigators got the opportunity to make longer and longer long voyages. As a result, two new continents were discovered in the same century: South and North America. They can be considered the largest geographical objects that were named after the Italian merchant Amerigo Vespucci (he was not a discoverer, but only the first to guess that these were new continents).

After the next continent, Australia, was discovered, one of major islands(Tasmania) in its south was named after the discoverer Abel Tasman, who was a Dutchman.

In addition to Tasmania, there are smaller islands and archipelagos named after travelers, such as:

• O. Bering;
• O. Fadeya;
• O. Rotmanova;
• O. Barents.

Parts of the seas and continents named after travelers

Of the well-known geographical features named after travelers, the following can be indicated:

• Strait of Magellan;
• Mount Everest;
• Laptev sea;
• Bering Strait and the sea;
• Barencevo sea;
• Mackenzie River;
• Angel Falls.

The Strait of Magellan is called Spanish navigator Ferdinand Magellan, who was the first in the world to travel around the Earth. This strait is located between South America and the islands of Tierra del Fuego.

Everest, highest peak planet, was named after the leader of the British expedition that explored the Himalayas. locals The mountain is called Chomolungma.

The Laptev Sea, which is located in northern Russia, is named after cousins ​​who explored its shores in the 18th century.

On our planet, you can find many geographical objects named after travelers or discoverers. For example, the highest Mountain peak bears the name of George Everest, the head of the English expedition in Nepal. Russian navigator Bering gave his name to the strait between Eurasia and America. To the south of Australia is the island of Tasmania, whose name is formed from the name of the Dutch discoverer Abel Tasman. Off the coast of South America there is the Strait of Magellan.

Strait of Magellan

The Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan in 1520 discovered a 575 km long strait between South America and the islands near its southern part. Magellan studied the coast with a length of more than two thousand kilometers, and only after a long search, he was able to find a narrow strait deep into the mainland.
Magellan explored the strait well and at the same time discovered the archipelago, which he gave the name Tierra del Fuego. And the ocean in which he swam, called the Pacific, for all three months of swimming there was not a single storm.

Cape Dezhnev

In 1648, Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev rounded the Chukchi Peninsula from the north, proving that it was possible to get from Europe to China through the northern seas. The strait between America and Eurasia was named after Bering, although Dezhnev had passed through the strait 80 years earlier, just in the Old World few people knew the Russian pioneers. And only in 1879, Nils Nordenskiöld, an explorer of the Arctic, restored justice and named the extreme eastern point of Eurasia after Dezhnev.
Cape Dezhnev is a heap of rocks one on top of the other, a penetrating wind constantly blows here. strong wind and it is often foggy.

Wrangel Island

The island was named after Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel - a navigator, admiral, explorer who studied the coast of Siberia in the northeast and the coast North America in the west from the Bering Strait to the coast of California.
Wrangel Island is inhabited by rare plants and animals; there is no such flora and fauna on any other Arctic island. Since 2004, the island has been under the protection of UNESCO.

Mount Cook

The most high mountain New Zealand (3754 meters) is named after the navigator James Cook. The summit is located in the Aoraki Mount Cook National Park. Discovered Mount Cook in 1768-1771 during his first trip around the world. James Cook also discovered the strait between the South and northern islands which also bears his name.
Bering Strait
In 1728, Dane Vitus Bering, an officer in the Russian fleet, was the first European navigator to cross the strait separating Eurasia and America. At its narrowest point, the width of the strait is 86 km. Also leading two expeditions in Kamchatka, Bering discovered several Aleutian Islands.

Ratmanov Island

Ratmanov Island is a rock with a flat top and a cap of snow lying on it. The island is located in the Bering Strait, it is the easternmost point of Russia. Sometimes, if the weather permits, you can see the coast of Alaska from it. The only life is the serving border guards.
Previously, the island was called Imaklik, later Vitus Bering, who sailed here, gave the name to Big Diomede Island. And only 90 years after Bering, the navigator Otto Kotzebue gave this island a different name - Ratmanov Island, in honor of the officer Makar Ratmanov, who participated with Otto himself in a round-the-world trip. So this geographical object was named after the traveler.

In 1611, the strait was discovered by Henry Hudson. Having gone on an expedition, the navigator encountered a riot on the ship. The sailors, having taken possession of the ship, turned it back, while Hudson, along with his son and some other crew members, were put on the boat without supplies. Nothing more is known about the fate of Henry Hudson, only that he disappeared in the vastness of the bay, which was deservedly named after him.
Hudson Bay is sometimes called the Canadian Sea - that's how deep the zalwee juts out into the country. Hudson Bay itself belongs to both the Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean.

Drake Passage

Very dangerous place for sailors - it often has strong storms and many whirlpools. This strait connects the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic. The narrowest part is 800 kilometers.
In 1578, the English pirate Francis Drake sailed through it for the first time on his ship the Golden Hind. After Magellan, Drake made the second trip around the world.

tasmania island

Abel Tasman discovered an island off the coast of Australia in 1642. They did not go ashore of the island, but moved on and a few days later were off the coast of New Zealand. After Zealand, sailors discovered the islands of Tonga and Fiji. But the East India Company recognized the expedition as unsuccessful, due to the fact that new trade routes were not found. The island of Tasmania, New Zealand, Australia were forgotten for 100 years. Until I visited here famous navigator James Cook. But only in 1856, 200 years later, the island got its real name.
Today, opium is legally grown on the island for pharmaceutical purposes.

This is a system of waterfalls and rapids on the Congo River, 350 kilometers long. The waterfalls end in the port of Matadi, which was founded by the traveler, African explorer and journalist Henry Morton Stanley. Stanley and named the waterfalls in the Congo after David Livingston. Scot Livingston - famous explorer Africa, who walked over it on foot for more than 50,000 kilometers. Although Livingston Falls, Livingston himself never saw - he studied only the upper reaches of the Congo.

Fadeya Islands

The Thaddeus Islands are located off the eastern coast of the Taimyr Peninsula, and are named after Faddey Faddeevich Bellingshausen, the discoverer of Antarctica. The group of islands was discovered in 1736 by a detachment of the Russian polar explorer Vasily Pronchishchev, they were all members of the Great Northern Expedition. Pronchishchev and his team on a wooden ship moved along the northeastern coast of Taimyr, compiling a description of the coastline.

Cape Chelyuskin

Semen Ivanovich Chelyuskin at the head of the expedition first reached the cape in the north of Taimyr in 1742. But then Chelyuskin called it East-North.
In 1842, celebrating the centenary of the expedition, it was decided to rename Cape Vostochno-North to Cape Chelyuskin, in honor of the explorer of the north of Russia and the polar navigator.
The climate in the north of the Taimyr Peninsula is quite severe - year-round winter, the snow hardly melts, and the summer temperature is not higher than +1 C°.

Mount Fitzroy

British officer Robert Fitzroy - explorer of the southern shores of Latin America. In 1831, the Beagle Fitzroy set sail from Portsmouth. The ship spent more than 3 years off the coast of South America. Fitzroy did a great deal of cartographic work. On the map, he plotted numerous islets off the western and east coast South America, explored Patagonia and the Strait of Magellan.
But he never saw the mountain named after him. After his voyage, 40 years have passed since the traveler from Argentina, Francisco Moreno, stumbled upon the South American peak in the wilds of Patagonia. picturesque mountain 3375 meters high, he decided to name it after the famous British explorer.

Lisyansky Island

In 1805, Ivan Kruzenshtern discovered a small Pacific island during his round-the-world trip in the northwest of the Hawaiian archipelago. Named after Fyodor Lisyansky, the captain of the Neva sloop, who also participated in the expedition. Until the 20th century, fertilizer was mined on this island from litter - guano. And since 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made the island part of the Hawaiian Bird Sanctuary.

Cities and towns named after domestic travelers:
1 - Kropotkin ( Krasnodar region). Russian geographer, geologist, prince - P.A. Kropotkin
2 - pos. Beringovsky(Chukotka). Captain-commander of the Russian fleet, navigator V.I. Bering.
3 - Shelikhov ( Irkutsk region). Russian travelers G.I.Shelikhov
4 - Lazarev ( Khabarovsk region). Russian traveler M.P. Lazarev
5 - pos. Poyarkova(Amur region) Russian explorer V.D. Poyarkov
6 - Makarov ( Sakhalin region). Oceanographer, Russian naval commander S.O. Makarov
7 - pos. Przhevalskoe (Smolensk region). Russian traveler N.M. Przhevalsky.
In the name of S.P. Krasheninnikov and named a cape on the island of Karaginsky, an island and a bay near the southeastern tip of Kamchatka, a mountain near Lake Kronotsky on the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula.