Russian Explorers. From Antarctica and Alaska to the Amazon and New Guinea

Russian explorers made a tremendous contribution to the study of the Earth. The Bellingshausen-Lazarev expedition penetrated to the Far South and discovered the icy continent – Antarctica. The Central Asian journeys of Nikolai Przhevalsky introduced the world to Tibet, Gobi, and Dzungaria. The exploration of North America was undertaken by Russian navy officer Lavrenty Zagoskin. He spent three years on expeditions in Alaska, creating the first detailed map of the peninsula. Grigory Langsdorff led an expedition to Brazil, which was the first to reach the deeper areas of the Amazon lowland and map them. The scientific achievement of Nikolai Miklucho-Maclay's travels to New Guinea and the islands of Oceania was highly regarded. He described the Melanesian race and the tribes of Papuans who had not yet been acquainted with Europeans.

The author of the text is journalist Dmitry Ivanov, who has been studying the history of geographical discoveries for many years. Among his publications on this topic are articles in the magazine "Around the World", books "Great Geographical Discoveries. Large Illustrated Atlas", "Great Russian Navigators", "Arctic. History of the Development of the Far North", "Antarctica. History of the Study of the Icy Continent", and "Siberia and the Far East. History of the Development of the Asian Part of Russia".