Otto von Kotzebue
Baltic German naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy.
1787 CE to 1846 CE
Otto von Kotzebue (Russian: О́тто Евста́фьевич Коцебу́; 30 December 1787 – 15 February 1846) is a Baltic German naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy. He commands two naval expeditions into the Pacific for the purposes of exploration and scientific investigation. The first expedition explores Oceania and the western coast of North America and passes through the Bering Strait in search of a passage across the Arctic Ocean. His second voyage is intended as a military resupply mission to Kamchatka but again includes significant explorations of the west coast of North America and Oceania.
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Otto von Kotzebue is placed in command of an expedition in the brig Rurik, fitted out at the expense of the imperial chancellor, Count Nikolay Rumyantsev, on Kotzebue's promotion to lieutenant in the Russian Navy,
In this vessel, with only twenty-seven men, including the naturalists Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz and Adelbert von Chamisso, and the artist Louis Choris, Kotzebue had set out on July 30, 1815 to find a passage across the Arctic Ocean and explore the less-known parts of Oceania.
Proceeding via Cape Horn, he had discovered the Romanzov Islands, Rurik Islands and Krusenstern Islands (today Tikehau), then made for Kamchatka.
In the middle of July 1816 he proceeds northward, coasting along the north-west coast of North America, and discovering and naming Kotzebue Sound or Gulf and Cape Krusenstern in the remote Chukchi Sea.
Returning by the coast of Asia, he had again sailed to the south, sojourned for three weeks at the Sandwich Islands, and on January 1, 1817, discovers New Year Island.
In this vessel, with only twenty-seven men, including the naturalists Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz and Adelbert von Chamisso, and the artist Louis Choris, Kotzebue had set out on July 30, 1815 to find a passage across the Arctic Ocean and explore the less-known parts of Oceania.
Proceeding via Cape Horn, he had discovered the Romanzov Islands, Rurik Islands and Krusenstern Islands (today Tikehau), then made for Kamchatka.
In the middle of July 1816 he proceeds northward, coasting along the north-west coast of North America, and discovering and naming Kotzebue Sound or Gulf and Cape Krusenstern in the remote Chukchi Sea.
Returning by the coast of Asia, he had again sailed to the south, sojourned for three weeks at the Sandwich Islands, and on January 1, 1817, discovers New Year Island.