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Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen (18 August [O.S. 9 August] 1778 – 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1852) was a Russian cartographer, explorer, and naval officer of Baltic German descent, who attained the rank of admiral.
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen was a Russian explorer who led the second expedition to circumnavigate Antarctica (1819–21) and for whom the Bellingshausen Sea, an area of the Antarctic waters, was named.
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Jan 25, 2020 · Learn about the life and achievements of Fabian von Bellingshausen, the Baltic German officer who led the first Russian expedition to the South Pole in 1819-1821. Discover how he sighted the edge of the Antarctic continent, circumnavigated it, and mapped new islands in the Pacific and Atlantic.
Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen ( 18 August [ O.S. 9 August] 1778 – 25 January [ O.S. 13 January] 1852) was a Russian cartographer, explorer, and naval officer of Baltic German descent, who attained the rank of admiral.
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (fäb´ēən gôt´lēp fôn bĕl´Ĭngzhou´zən), 1778–1852, Russian explorer, b. Sarema, Estonia.
Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen led the second expedition to circumnavigate Antarctica (1819–21). The Bellingshausen Sea, an area of the Antarctic waters, was named for him. Bellingshausen was born on August 18, 1778, in Ösel (now Saaremaa), Estonia, Russian Empire.
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On January 26, 1820 Bellingshausen crossed the Antarctic Circle becoming the first to do so since Cook in 1773. The following day his log indicates sailing to within 20 miles of the Antarctic mainland. He should have been able to see it so perhaps he simply mistook it for a wall of ice.
