Aleksei Chirikov

Alexei Ilyich Chirikov (Russian Алексей Ильич Чириков, scientific transliteration Aleksej Il'ič Čirikov; * 13 Dezemberjul / December 24 1703greg.in Luschnoje, Tula province, . † November 1748 ) was a Russian sailor and Siberia researchers.

Life and work

1721 he completed his studies at the Academy of the Russian Navy. He participated as a ship commander 1725-1730 in the First and 1733-1743 at the Second Kamchatka led by Vitus Bering in part. In the latter parts of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands were discovered.

On July 25, 1741 ( one day before Bering ) he sighted land on the southeast coast of Alaska - probably at the Baker Iceland outside the Prince of Wales Island. The following week Chirikov tried to send two reconnaissance teams on land, but both mysteriously disappeared, and returned as the St. Paul Alaska 's back, reaching on 23 October, again its home port of Petropavlovsk.

In 1742 he was involved in a search party for Bering's ship was in distress. When searching, he discovered the island of Attu. In 1746 he was involved in the creation of a map of Russian discoveries in the Pacific.

Kaps on the islands of Kyūshū, Attu, in the Bay of Anadyr, the Bay of Tauiskaja, an underwater mountain in the Pacific and the Chirikov Island in Alaska today wear Tschirikows name.