1898 Vilkitsky Expedition - ARCTIC SIBERIA WITH MAP

Vilkitsky - Arctic Siberia Explorations - With Color Map

Title: Russian Navigators in the Arctic Ocean in 1895-96.

Author: SHOKALSKY, Colonel J.
Publisher: London: Royal Geographical Society, 1898

Notes & Condition: Accompanied by a remarkably detailed, large colour map illustrating scientific soundings and corrections to coastlines on previous charts, the author's account provides a succinct summary of Russian observations, from previously unpublished sources. The special hydrographic expedition organized by the Russian Admiralty, known as the Vilkitsky Expedition, explored the estuaries of the Obi or Ob river, the Yenisei river, and part of the Kara Sea from 1894 to 1896, the latter of which was crossed by Swedish explorer Adolf Nordenskiöld on his ship Vega.

Narrative is 5 pages, plus a large fold-out colour map measuring approximately 15.5 inches x 15.5 inches (39,5cm x 39,5cm). These are original pages and map printed in 1898, in excellent condition. Attractively bound booklet style in recent blue paper covers with label.

The Ob River is a major river in western Siberia, and has the longest estuary in the world. The Ob is known to the Khanty people as the As, Yag, Kolta and Yema; to the Nenets people as the Kolta or Kuay; and to the Siberian Tatars as the Umar or Omar.

The Yenisei is the greatest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, and is the fifth longest river in the world. Rising in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course to the Yenisei Gulf in the Kara Sea, draining a large part of central Siberia, the longest stream following the Yenisei-Angara-Selenga-Ider.