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Maxima
12020-04-30T15:41:43-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f598A map with pretensions, this is a sheet from the "Atlas of Russia" - the first "modern" atlas of the Russian Empire published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences. The man at the helm of the atlas project was a French cartographer, Joseph Nicolas de L'isle.plain2020-05-05T13:51:01-04:001745Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5A map with pretensions, this is a sheet from the Atlas Rossicus - the first "modern" atlas of the Russian Empire published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences. The man at the helm of the atlas project was a French cartographer, Joseph Nicolas de L'isle (whose name often appears as Delisle). The map shows Kamchatka as part of Yakutia (Iakutia), with the Kamchatka Sea (Kamczackoe More) separating the peninsula from the important settlement at Okhotsk to the west.
One of the most interesting features of the map is the depiction of the overland travel routes linking inland Siberia to the coasts of the Arctic and Pacific.
12020-04-29T22:20:50-04:00Maxima4Full Title: Territorii Iacutensis pars Orientalior cum Maxima Parte Terre Kamtschtkae // by Joseph DeLisle (St. Petersburg, 1745) // Harvard Map Collection. Permanent catalog link: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990038945480203941/catalogplain2020-04-30T16:06:42-04:001745
