| Fabian Gottlieb Von Bellingshausen |
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| bellingshausen, fabian gottlieb von | |
| imperial russian navy admirals | |
| russian and soviet polar explorers | |
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| 1778 births | |
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Born to a Baltic German family in Saaremaa ( Ösel ) in Estonia - then part of the Russian Empire - Bellingshausen enlisted as a cadet in the Imperial Russian Navy at the age of ten. After graduating from the naval academy at Kronstadt at age eighteen, he rapidly rose to the rank of captain. As a great admirer of Cook 's voyages, he served in the first Russian circumnavigation of the earth on the vessel ''Nadezhda'' ("Hope") under Krusenstern in 1803, completing the mission in 1806. His career continued with the command of various ships in the Baltic and Black Sea s. When , Russia , were carefully compared with the log-books of other claimants by the British polar historian A. G. E. Jones in his 1982 study 'Antarctica Observed'. Jones concluded that Bellingshausen, rather than the Royal Navy's Edward Bransfield on 30 January 1820 or the American Nathaniel Palmer on 17 November 1820 , was indeed the discoverer of the sought-after Terra Australis . During the voyage Bellingshausen also visited the South Shetland Islands , and discovered and named Peter I Island and a peninsula of the Antarctic mainland which he named the Alexander Coast but which has more recently borne the designation of Alexander Island . The expedition continued to make discoveries in the tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean. Returning to Kronstadt on 4 August 1821 to no great acclaim, Bellingshausen continued to serve his '' Tsar ''. He fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829 and attained the rank of Admiral . He became the military governor of Kronstadt (from 1839) and died there in 1852. NAMINGS
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