Polar & expedition maps
Maps from Bellingshausen’s Antarctic expedition
Historical recordAtlas records the 1819–1821 southern voyage.
What this record establishes
Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.
Record details
- Original title
- Bellingshausen expedition atlas
- Artifact date
- 1831
- Holding institution
- Russian Geographical Society
Title page of Bellingshausen’s 1831 expedition atlas. The printed voyage dates read 1819, 1820 and 1821.
Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen, Atlas to the voyage of Captain Bellingshausen, St Petersburg, 1831. Presidential Library digitization of Central Naval Library copy, via Wikimedia Commons.
Same original 1831 atlas edition, alternate institutional copy rather than RGO scan. Authentic title page, not a map plate. Printed title confirms 1820; catalog transcription 1829 is erroneous.
Image source record · Reuse terms
Image rights and evidence limits
Commons explicitly Public Domain Mark 1.0, PD-old-70-expired and US public domain; saved file description.
Image existence does not prove a linked claim. Consult image-specific captions and reuse conditions.
Sources and what they support
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- image reproduction provenance; not proof of a linked interpretationhttps://www.prlib.ru/item/317118
- image reuse conditionshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%90%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81.png
- institutional or documentary recordhttps://elib.rgo.ru/handle/123456789/233491
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