Everything about Leonty Andrianovich Gagemeister totally explained
Leonty Andrianovich Gagemeister (
Russian:
Леонтий Андрианович Гагемейстер,
1780–
1833) was a
Russian seafarer and explorer of the
Pacific Ocean,
Captain of the 1st rank.
In
1806-
1807, Gagemeister journeyed from
Kronstadt to
Russian America, crossing the
Atlantic,
Indian, and Pacific Oceans in his ship
Neva. In
1808–
1809, he explored the shores of
Alaska and made trips to the North Pacific. Gagemeister returned to
St. Petersburg through
Siberia in 1810. He was chairman of the
Admiralty of
Irkutsk from 1812 to
1815, in which capacity Gagemeister was responsible for the building of the first ships for crossing
Lake Baikal. From 1816 to
1819, he was in charge of the ship
Russian-American Company ship
Kutuzov, on which he made his first
circumnavigation of the globe, with a stop in Russian America. In
1828–
1829, Gagemeister made his second circumnavigation on the ship
Krotky. During this journey, he discovered the
Menshikov Atoll in a chain of the
Marshall Islands and specified the location of some other islands.
An
island and a
strait in Alaska bear Gagemeister's name.
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