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	Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen (Russian: Беллинсгаузен, Фаддей Фаддеевич; Faddey Faddeyevich Bellinsgauzen) (September 20, 1778–January 13, 1852) served as a naval officer of the Russian Empire and commanded the second Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe, which discovered the continent of Antarctica on their way.
		Born to a Baltic German family in Ösel (Saaremaa) in Estonia - then part of the Russian Empire - Bellingshausen enlisted as a cadet in the Imperial Russian Navy at the age of 10.
		Bellingshausen's diary, his report to the Russian Naval Minister on 21 July 1821 and other documents, available in the Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic in Saint Petersburg, Russia, all support this fact.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fabian_von_Bellingshausen (483 words)

	Encyclopedia: Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
		Portrait of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
		Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern (born November 19, 1770 in Hagudi, Estonia, died August 24, 1846 in Reval (Tallinn), Estonia) was the Russian admiral and explorer who in 1803-1806 led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth.
		Bellingshausen Island (59º25´S 027º03´W) is one of the most southerly of the South Sandwich Islands, close to Thule Island and Russian Antarctic explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778-1852) who discovered the island.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fabian-Gottlieb-von-Bellingshausen (1498 words)

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		Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (Беллинсгаузен, Фаддей Фаддеевич, Faddey Faddeyevich Bellinsgauzen in Russian) (September 20, 1778 - January 13, 1852) served as a naval officer of the Russian Empire and commanded the second expedition to circumnavigate Antarctica.
		Born in Ösel in Estonia - then part of the Russian Empire - Bellingshausen enlisted as a cadet in the Russian Imperial Navy at the age of 10.
		This fact is fixed in Bellingshausen's diary, in his report to Russian Naval Minister on 21 July 1821 and other documents, which are available in the Russian State Museum of Arctic and Antarctic in Saint Petersburg, Russia [1]
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fabian-von-Bellingshausen (495 words)

	Bellingshausen Island - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Bellingshausen Island (59°25′ S 027°03′ W (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=59_25_S_027_03_W_)) is one of the most southerly of the South Sandwich Islands, close to Thule Island and Cook Island.
		Bellingshausen is named after Russian Antarctic explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778-1852) who discovered the island.
		Bellingshausen led an expedition which discovered and named several islands in the region.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Bellingshausen_Island (133 words)

	AllRefer.com - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors
		Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen[fAb´Eun gOt´lEp fOn bel´ingzhou´´zun] Pronunciation Key, 1778–1852, Russian explorer, b.
		A graduate of the naval academy at Kronstadt, he commanded two ships on an extended voyage (1819–21) during which he circumnavigated Antarctica and named the Alexander I, Peter I, and Traversay islands.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BellingsFG.html (176 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
		Arriving back in Sydney in September, Bellingshausen was notified by the Russian consul that an English sealing captain named William Smith had discovered a group of islands on the 67th parallel, which he called the South Shetlands, and had proclaimed them to be part of the Antarctic continent.
		Bellingshausen immediately decided to take a look for himself with the major motive of finding a way to continue further south.
		Bellingshausen continued to serve his country for another 30 years, attaining the rank of Admiral.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000073.htm (1087 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Admiral Faddei Faddevich Bellingshausen - Explorer
		Bellingshausen continued to chart Antarctic water and his journals were published in St. Petersburg in 1831
		Bellingshausen and his crew circumnavigated Antarctica numerous times during the next eight years and the charts produced by them of the Antarctic waters were in use by the British Admiralty until the 1930s.
		Bellingshausen died at age 74 on 25 January, 1852, but his name lives on in the Bellingshausen Station Antarctica and the Bellingshausen Sea as well as in the tropical atoll.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1084727 (619 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Bellingshausen Fabian Gottlieb von (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bellingshausen, Fabian Gottlieb von (1778-1852), Russian explorer and naval officer, born on the island of Ösel (now Saaremaa), Estonia....
		From 1819 to 1821, a Russian expedition under the naval officer and explorer Fabian von Bellingshausen circumnavigated Antarctica and discovered some...
		In 1820 three different expeditions came into contact with the Antarctic mainland: the British naval officer Edward Bransfield sighted the...
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		Bellingshausen, Fabian Gottlieb von (1778-1852), Russian explorer and naval officer, born on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia.
		In July 1819 a Russian naval expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen complemented and enhanced Cook’s findings.
		Fichte, Johann Gottlieb : philosophers influenced by Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von
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	Bellingshausen Island -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bellingshausen Island () is one of the most southerly of the South Sandwich Islands, close to (Click link for more info and facts about Thule Island) Thule Island and (Click link for more info and facts about Cook Island) Cook Island.
		Bellingshausen is named after (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russian (The region around the south pole: Antarctica and surrounding waters) Antarctic explorer (Click link for more info and facts about Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen) Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778-1852) who discovered the island.
		Bellingshausen led an expedition which discovered and named several islands in the
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Be/Bellingshausen_Island.htm (179 words)

	Bellingshausen Sea
		Bellingshausen Sea is located between Thurston Island on the West and the Antarctic Peninsula on the East.
		In younger history, the ice extent in the Bellingshausen Sea decreased at a rate of roughly 8 percent per decade.
		This may suggest that the ice cover lost in the Bellingshausen Sea has actually migrated to the Ross Sea and reflects the large changes in the physical characteristics of the ice cover in this region.
	www.lighthouse-foundation.org /lighthouse-foundation.org/eng/maproom/bellings_sea.shtml (384 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bellingshausen Sea
		Bellingshausen Sea, inlet of the southern Pacific Ocean along the coast of Antarctica.
		Bellingshausen Sea extends along the coast of Ellsworth Land...
		Antarctic Peninsula, northernmost tip of Antarctica, directly south of South America, flanked on the east by Weddell Sea and on the west by...
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	Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At the age of 10, Bellingshausen started his career as a cadet and at the age of 18, he graduated from the Naval Academy at Kronstadt.
		On 5 September 1819 he was sent off from Portsmouth on a voyage to discover the Southern Ocean and reached South Georgia by the end of the year.
		This was a dream assignment for Bellingshausen as he admired Cook's voyages.
	www.70south.com /resources/history/explorers/bellingshausen (325 words)

	Fabian
		Saint Fabian - Fabian, Saint, pope (236–50), a Roman; successor of St. Anterus and predecessor of St....
		Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen - Bellingshausen, Fabian Gottlieb von, 1778–1852, Russian explorer, b.
		Pär Fabian Lagerkvist - Lagerkvist, Pär Fabian, 1891–1974, Swedish poet, dramatist, and novelist.
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	Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		six-person entourage on a trip to commemorate the 180th anniversary of the 1820 naval voyage to Antarctica by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
		Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen (isla de Ösel, 1778 - † Kronstadt, 1852) Marino ruso.
		The voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas, 1819-1821 (Works issued by the Hakluyt society...
	enciclopedia.cc /Fabian_Gottlieb_von_Bellingshausen (216 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica (Antarctic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Bellingshausen Sea, part of the S Pacific Ocean, W Antarctica, SW of Cape Horn between the Antarctic Peninsula and Amundsen Sea.
		The sea is named after Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, who circumnavigated Antarctica in 1819.
		Major islands in the sea include Alexander I, Peter I (both named by Bellingshausen), and Charcot islands.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BellingsSea.html (167 words)

	Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
		Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (russisk Faddei Faddeivitsch), russisk admiral (20.
		Bellingshausen blev født på Ösel og død i Kronstadt.
		Allerede som tiårig begyndte han på sin militære løbebane som kadet ved søfartsakademiet i Kronstadt, og han deltog 1803 til 1806 i Krusensterns verdensomsejling (den første russiske verdensomsejling) og udmærkede sig 1809 som korvetkaptajn i krigen mod svenskerne.
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	exped.html
		The ship became unseaworthy in Australia and most of the crew went home to catch a new ship, but Flinders was held prisoner at Mauritius as a spy for several years, so no new ship arrived and after two years in Australia Brown and Bauer went home with the repaired but still leaking "Investigator".
		The vessel (named for Admiral Tegethoff, under whom Weyprecht had served and who had defeated the Italian fleet in the battle of Lissa in 1866) was lost in 82°N, but Weiprecht and his men escaped in life boats and was rescued in Dune Bay off Novaya Zemlya by Russian fishermen, commanded by captain Voronin.
		Studer, Börger and Freiherr von Schleinitz, all the oceans.
	www.tmbl.gu.se /libdb/taxon/personetymol/exped.html (5667 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: Erich von Drygalski
		Erich von Drygalski was born on February 9, 1865 in Köningsberg, East Prussia.
		Near the end of the nineteenth century 'Antarctic fever' broke out in western Europe and in 1898 the German South Polar Commission suggested a national expedition to Antarctica.
		The German South Polar Expedition 1901-03, by Erich von Drygalski.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000085.htm (1397 words)

	Antarctic Voyages and Expeditions
		Pedersen accompanied Evenson as far as 64° 23' S. Bull, a Norwegian businessman in Melbourne's mercantile business at a time when Australian scientists were cogitating an Australian Antarctic expedition, became enraptured with the idea of a voyage to the Antarctic and believed that one could be paid off by a modest whaling success.
		Gerlache's party, which included physician Frederick Cook, third officer Roald Amundsen, and a staff of outstanding scientists of diverse nationalities, visited the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, discovered the Gerlache Strait, made twenty landings on various islands, described new coastline, and made the first sledging journey in Antarctica (on Brabant Island).
		Drygalski, professor of geography and geophysics at the University of Berlin, led this government-funded scientific expedition to the Antarctic.
	www.antarctic-circle.org /rosove.htm (4233 words)

	Discoverers Web: Alphabetical List: B
		Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (also known as Thaddeus von Bellingshausen, Russia, 1778-1852)
		Moves on to Kansas and Nebraska, but is killed in a quarrel with his second-in-command Humaña.
		1799-1800: With Von Humboldt, explores the Orinoco and confirms the existence of the Casiquiare, a 'natural channel' connecting the Orinoco and Rio Negro rivers.
	www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/alpha/b.html (1848 words)

	Peter I Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Peter I Island (in Norwegian Peter Is øy) was discovered on 21 January 1821 by Fabian von Bellingshausen[?].
		It was then named after the Russian Czar Peter I.
		Janet had had no difficulty in placing Ditmar; not much itinerant band of syndiealists who had descended upon her.
	www.termsdefined.net /pe/peter-i-island.html (111 words)

	History of Antarctica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bransfield supposedly saw Antarctica on January 27, 1820, three days before Palmer sighted land.
		It is certain that on January 28, 1820 (New Style) the expedition led by Fabian von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev on two ships reached a point within 20 miles (40 km) of the Antarctic mainland and saw ice-fields there.
		On January 30, Bransfield approached Trinity Peninsula, the northernmost point of the Antarctic mainland, and went ashore on a pinnace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Antarctica (1262 words)

	Channel 4 Television - to the ENDS of the EARTH
		The Antarctic continent is sighted, but there are three contenders for the honour of who saw it first: Russian admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen, who circumnavigates it and visits nearby islands; Nathanial Palmer, an American sealing captain; and Edward Bransfield, a British naval officer.
		With Ernest Shackleton and Edward Wilson, Scott sledges south to 82ºS, discovering part of the Victoria Land mountain range.
		At the same time, a German expedition led by Erich von Drygalski is the first to explore the eastern coast, now Kaiser Wilhelm Land.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/E/ends/shackleton6.html (795 words)

	Bellingshausen finally sights the Antarctic continent
		In 1819 Fabian von Bellingshausen, a captain in the Russian Imperial Navy and a great admirer of Cook, departed for the South.
		Following Cooks own charts he led his two ships, the Vostok and the Mirnyi on a circumnavigation of Antarctica and in January 1820 he became the first person to see the Antarctic continent describing it as:
		The superpower was now keen to establish its claims to the Antarctic and the Southern Oceans.
	ast.leeds.ac.uk /haverah/spaseman/belling.shtml (124 words)

	time4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Russian Admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen sights land in the Antarctic.
		Carl von Clausewitz's classic study of warfare On War is published.
		Baron von Mestmacher becomes President of the Welfare Committee and holds the post for 3 years.
	www.cla.umn.edu /clanet/marko/time4.htm (4972 words)

	antarctica: geography
		James Cook was the first explorer known to cross the Antarctic Circle, in January 1773.
		Land was probably first spotted by Admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen and M. Lazerev 47 years later, in January 1820.
		John Davis, captain of an American sealer, was the first person known to set foot on Antarctica.
	www.funsocialstudies.learninghaven.com /articles/antarctica.htm (678 words)

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