Keywords: 1794 Laurie and Whittle Wall Map of Russia - Geographicus - Russia-lauriewhittle-1794.jpg An rare and magnificently proportioned 1794 wall map of the Russian Empire by Laurie and Whittle Extends from the North Sea and the Black Sea eastward as far as Siberia and the Behring Strait Extends south to China and the Aral Sea and north to include the island of Nova Zembla and the Arctic Color coded according to region with Russia in Europe toned in reds and pinks and Russia in Asia in yellows and greens This map is most interesting in its extreme eastern portions which when this map was drawn had only recently been explored The explorations of Vitus Behring are very much in evidence with regard to the form of Kamtschatka and the extreme northeast of Siberia Shows variosu nautical routes from Okotskoi Ostrog in Siberia ccross the Sea of Okotsk to Kamtschatka and the Kuril Islands Sakhalin is curiously divided into two separate islands Hokkaido appears as Matmay or Atkis Identifies Behring Island off the coast of Kamtschatka where the great Arctic navigator ultimately met his doom Published by Laurie and Whittle as plate no 25 in the 1797 edition of Thomas Kitchin's General Atlas 1794 dated Size in 51 19 object history credit line accession number Russia-lauriewhittle-1794 Kitchin Thomas <i>Kitchin's General Atlas describing the Whole Universe being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care and augmented from the last edition of D'Anville and Robert with many improvements by other eminent geographers engraved on Sixty-Two plates comprising Thirty Seven maps </i> Laurie Whittle London 1797 Geographicus-source PD-Art-100 Old maps of the Russian Empire 1794 maps Maps in English |