[DOC] [TLE] Alaska's Heritage - CHAPTER 3-1: RUSSIANS COME TO ALASKA [PAR] Tsar, or emperor, Peter the Great ruled Russia between 1689 and 1725. ... Bering 
was a Dane who had enlisted in the Russian navy in 1703, when he was about ... 
Tsar Peter ordered Bering to go to Russia's Pacific coast, build ships, and sail ... 
He had been sent to find out for himself if the continents were separated, not to... [DOC] [TLE] Great Northern Expedition - Wikipedia [PAR] The Great Northern Expedition (Russian:   ) or 
Second Kamchatka expedition (Russian:   ) was 
one of the largest organised exploration enterprises in history, resulting in 
mapping of the most of the Arctic coast of Siberia and some parts ... The 
endeavour was initially conceived by Russian Emperor Peter I the Great... [DOC] [TLE] Vitus Bering - Wikipedia [PAR] Vitus Jonassen Bering (baptised 5 August 1681, died 19 December 1741), also 
known as Ivan ... A storm separated the ships, but Bering sighted the southern 
coast of Alaska, and a landing was ... He would be repeatedly promoted in Peter 
the Great's rapidly evolving navy, reaching the rank of second captain by 1720. [DOC] [TLE] Great Northern Expedition | Russian exploration | Britannica.com [PAR] Great Northern Expedition, (173342), in Russian history, the continuation of an 
enterprise ... by the emperor Peter I the Great to map the northern sea route to the 
East. The expedition mapped a large section of the Arctic coast of Siberia and .... 
William Clark, to explore the Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific Northwest. [DOC] [TLE] Vitus Bering | Kingo Jacobsen | Geografisk Tidsskrift - Tidsskrift.dk [PAR] Vitus Bering's first Kamchatka Expedition 1725-1730, by order of Czar Peter the 
... The Great Northern Expedition. Niels Kingo Jacobsen, Professor, Dr. Institute 
of .... (1725-1741) who probed the northernmost reaches of the Pacific to discover 
that .... came from the far side of the Eurasian continent, the Dane, Vitus Bering! [DOC] [TLE] How Alaska Left Russia and Became Part of the U.S.? | Don Tow's ... [PAR] Shortly before his death in 1725, the czar of Russia, Peter the Great, ... be 
transported 5,000 miles from St. Petersburg to the Pacific Coast of Siberia ... 
Although this expedition never landed in North America, they did find out that ... 
was a reliable supply of food, as it was very expensive to send supplies from 
Siberia to Sitka. [DOC] [TLE] Vitus Bering's Explorations of the Far Northern Pacific - Dictionary ... [PAR] Oct 12, 2016 ... Because of this, the western coast of North America was explored primarily by the 
... More than seventy years later Peter the Great became intensely ... In 1725 he 
sent Vitus Bering, a Dane serving in the Russian Navy, on a... [DOC] [TLE] Vitus Bering facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] Vitus Bering (1681-1741), a Dane in Russian employ, led two major exploratory 
... In January 1725 Peter I asked Bering to command the first Kamchatkan 
expedition, ... over 6,000 miles of wilderness and reached Okhotsk on the Pacific 
coast on Sept. ... and in 1732 he was given command of the Great Northern 
Expedition. [DOC] [TLE] Vikings of the Pacific - The Adventures of the Explorers who Came ... [PAR] government are not unlike the English navigators, Cook and Vancouver, sent out 
by the. English Admiralty. ... Pacific coast in either Gray, the discoverer of the 
Columbia, or Ledyard, whose ill-fated, ... Peter the Great sends Bering on Two 
Voyages: First, to discover whether ... CONTINUATION OF BERING, THE DANE [DOC] [TLE] Peter Ulf Moeller_Vitus Berings Kamchatka Expeditions ... [PAR] Oct 14, 2016 ... As one of his last major initiatives Peter the Great charged the Danish captain 
Vitus Bering with an expedition to Kamchatka to explore the American coast. ... 
for Russian colonization and trade beyond the Pacific coast of Siberia. ... The 
First Kamchatka Expedition (1725-1730) was the more modest of the... [DOC] [TLE] The Far West Coast, by V. L. Denton [PAR] Dec 11, 2009 ...

Question: In 1725 Peter the Great sent this Dane to explore the Pacific coast
Answer: Vitus Bering